Utica sees grief, devastation–and hope
A few minnows still were swimming in the tank at the Starved Rock Bait and Tackle shop Thursday, a sure sign to owner Jim Collins that all was not lost...
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Ryan, Obama side by side in race for election funds
Illinois' candidates for U.S. Senate are keeping pace with each another in raising campaign cash, with Republican Jack Ryan raising about $500,000 since last month's primary and Barack Obama raising...
Ryan, Obama enter new ring
Erudite, studious and perhaps most comfortable when he is buried in an E.L. Doctorow novel or a Miles Davis recording, Barack Obama is not the kind of man who actively...
Voters have distinct choices in fall
This story contains corrected material, published March 18, 2004 Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Jack Ryan are both Harvard educated, loaded with charisma and sport made-for-TV good looks, but that's...
Obama routs Democratic foes; Ryan tops crowded GOP field
Barack Obama, an African-American state senator and former civil-rights lawyer from Hyde Park, won a landslide victory over six competitors Tuesday to assume the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate,...
Candidates hopeful to the end
Amid anticipation of a low-turnout election compounded by iffy weather, candidates for Illinois U.S. Senate nominations wound up the final campaign day Monday with cross-state marathons. Also facing voters on...
Even a dog gets in act as Senate race ends
The crowded field of U.S. Senate candidates spent the final Sunday of the primary campaign using everything from church pulpits to parade routes to e-mails to a hymn-howling dog as...
Hull concedes he took cocaine in early ’80s
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Blair Hull acknowledged Wednesday he used cocaine and marijuana until the early 1980s and had twice sought evaluation for alcohol abuse. Meanwhile, the Republican Senate contest...
Candidate without faults is a rarity
State Sen. Barack Obama claims the mantle of a reformer, but early last month the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate spent $17,191 in state taxpayer money on a mailer that had...
Democrats rip school funding
Although most of the leading Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate support the federal No Child Left Behind Act's overriding goal of increasing accountability in public schools, they uniformly blast how...