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In the decade since mass protests over the punishment of six Black students in Decatur, the state's racial gap in discipline has split wide open.

Not even a small army of Chicago's political elite testifying on their behalf could fend off prison terms for the two one-time owners of the E2 nightclub, scene of a horrific stampede that left 21 dead.

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In the decade since mass protests over the punishment of six black students in Decatur, the state's racial gap in discipline has split wide open.

A researcher says a "cultural mismatch" between teachers and students is partly to blame for a huge racial disparity in Illinois school discipline.

Rev. Isaac C. Hayes, the GOP nominee in IL-2, has a problem with recent comments by the Rev.

RANT: For the Rev. Jesse Jackson's obvious shot at U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala., for voting against health care reform legislation.

Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks to news media in Los Angeles on July 7, 2009. Jackson, speaking in Washington, D.C., at a reception for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, did not mention Davis by name, according to a report in The Hill newspaper.

Now there's a quick way to keep track of 17 lawmakers facing possible action by the Department of Justice, House ethics committee, Senate ethics committee and the Office of Congressional Ethics.

When the clock strikes midnight tonight, Sen. Robert Byrd will become the longest-serving member of Congress ever - a capstone on a remarkable career in which the adopted son of a coal miner propelled himself from poverty to the pinnacle of legislative power, where he could, did and still does send billions of federal dollars back across the Blue ...

Autopsy results show that the president of the Chicago Board of Education committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.

Last weekend, Representatives, Bobby Rush ; Jesse Jackson ; Daniel Lipinski ; Luis Gutierrez ; Mike Quigley ; Danny Davis ; Melissa Bean ; Janice Schakowsky ; Deborah Halvorson ; Jerry Costello ; Bill Foster ; and Phil Hare , voted in favor of HR 3962, Nancy Pelosi's national health care bill.

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In commenting upon President Barak Obama's "Olympic ego trip" to Copenhagen, George Will noted that Obama used the personal pronoun 26 times in 46 sentences.

This whole town has gone MAD. Signifying that former Gov. Rod Blagojevich isn't even #1 at being mocked, Mad Magazine has awarded the Coifed One 15th place in its annual Top 20 list of dumbest people, events and things of 2009.

November 8, 2009) - Are seven investigations too many to be a coincidence? All seven of the full-scale ethics investigations currently underway in the U.S. House of Representatives are focused on African-American lawmakers-and it would be eight if the committee conducting the investigations hadn't deferred to the Justice Department's investigation ...

Chicago-area members of Congress have begun issuing statements on the Saturday night passage of the health care reform bill, H.R. 3962 -- and like the mainly partisan vote, the reactions have also fallen along party lines.

Somewhere up on a celestial dairy farm, the Holsteins are mooing, and a quiet smile is creasing the face of my late mother-in-law, Ruth Lawrence.

The tour stopped at many schools, including Howard and Hampton Universities. 'None of the schools spoke to me like Bennett did,' she says.

President Ronald Reagan had his flaws, but he certainly could turn a phrase. In the 1980 presidential campaign he asked a question that has resonated in campaigns ever since: "Are you better off than you were four years ago," the former California governor asked in his race against Democratic President Jimmy Carter.