Chicago voters weigh another Daley term
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Mayor Richard M. Daley will be on course to eclipse his legendary father and become the city's longest-serving mayor if voters Tuesday give him a sixth term despite a City Hall corruption scandal.
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Rasmussen Reports - A plurality of 46% of Illinois voters would vote for a generic Democrat if the Presidential election were held today, while only 35% would vote for the GOP candidate. But Senator Barack Obama benefits more from the pro-Democratic leaning than does Senator Hillary Clinton.
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THE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats and Republicans in Illinois.
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Most independents say they'll vote Democratic.
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Fresh from the Independence Day  holiday, Chicago Board of Trade members returned to work on  Thursday expecting more fireworks in the last days of  canvassing before a vote that could decide the exchange&#39;s  future.
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Mayor Richard M. Daley won a sixth term Tuesday, overcoming a City Hall corruption scandal and putting himself on course to eclipse his legendary father's record as the city's longest-serving mayor.
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The Democratic presidential race has developed a different and welcome dynamic -- a sharp competition among the leading candidates to become champions of urban America.
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Former Rep. Ron Dellums appeared to win the mayor&#039;s race late Friday after a final ballot count showed he got the majority of votes needed to avoid a November runoff.
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The convictions of Mayor Richard M. Daley&#039;s former patronage chief and three other one-time officials on federal charges are guaranteed to cast a shadow over next year&#039;s election, experts say.
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Democratic voters have conflicted feelings about the Clinton White House years. How they judge that era â politically as well as emotionally â may well decide the race for the partyâs presidential nomination.
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Candidates for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee talked Tuesday about the need to rebuild the party from the ground up as they pitched themselves to Democratic mayors.
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Illinois- On the eve of the election, the big race here in Illinois is for the US Senate. With only hours to campaign, a new poll shows Barack Obama with a three to one lead over his Republican counterpart, Alan Keyes.
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When Republican voters in Illinois' 8th Congressional District go to the polls on Feb. 5 for their state's Super Tuesday presidential primary, they also will decide who will represent their party in one of its most important House races this year -- its bid to take back the seat in this typically Republican-leaning suburban Chicago district, which Democratic moderate Melissa Bean won in a big 2004 upset and then successfully defended in 2006.
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Chicago can &#39;&#39;live without&#39;&#39; Wal-Mart, Mayor Daley said Tuesday, but he questioned whether the reverse is true: whether the nation&#39;s largest retailer can survive the black eye it would suffer by walking away from Chicago.
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Sen. Barack Obama has been lavishing attention on the historically independent voters of Wisconsin. Rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is moving belatedly to make a contest of next Tuesday's Democratic presidential primary.
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Some St. Louis voters weighing uniqueness of a black president versus an affinity for the Clintons.
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BLAINE, Minn. - Vote for my opponent. Please. Paul Herold entered the primary for a City Council seat in this Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb, but then he landed a new job that he says wouldn't leave him enough time to do a decent job for his constituents.