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Student voters underestimated at polls

According to student voter registration advocates, in the final weeks leading up to the election, college students could have more voting power than anyone’s given…

Quinn Admits Defeat

Gov. Pat Quinn announced his official defeat to Republican candidate Bruce Rauner at the James R. Thompson Center Wednesday while protesters filled the plaza wearing…

Nuns On the Bus Get Out the Vote

The Nuns on the Bus campaign made the University of Illinois Chicago campus the third stop on its “We the People, We the Voters” cross-country…

Why Vote in 2014? Get Registered Now

Ferguson, Missouri, a town where 67 percent of residents are black and 29 percent white, five of the six city council members are white, as…

Gingrich Places A Distant Fourth In First Presidential Race of 2012

It’s been a wild ride for Republican presidential challengers in Iowa, and Newt Gingrich is the latest candidate with motion sickness. Gingrich, the former U.S.…

Chicago Native Seeking Green Party Presidential Nomination But Won’t Appear on Illinois Ballot

DES MOINES – As the final hours tick away before the nation’s first nominating contest of 2012, another presidential hopeful monitors what’s happening from outside…

Illinois Voters May Miss Bachmann in March

DES MOINES – Michele Bachmann might not be on the Illinois primary ballot this spring if she does not perform well in the Iowa Caucuses…