Earlier this week, when Republicans rallied at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, it was as though they were on that classic game show "Password," where no one was allowed say the name of their party's presidential nominee. Thursday, however, Democrats took the opposite tack, saying the name again and again.
The Illinois delegation had front-row seats at this week's Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. And several Illinoisans were in the spotlight, from members of Congress, to the nominee, former Chicago suburbanite Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The Illinois Attorney General's office says a settlement in the workplace retaliation lawsuit against Democratic U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth is final and the plaintiffs can't back out even if no paperwork
was signed. Duckworth faces GOP U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk in a November election that could influence control of the Senate.
Republican U.S. Senator Mark Kirk, one of the party's most endangered incumbents, said Tuesday he won't support the presumptive GOP presidential nominee after Trump's controversial comments about a federal judge of Mexican heritage. Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner said he was 'disgusted' by Trump's words, and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence called them 'inappropriate.'
A member of Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner's administration says he won't be supporting Donald Trump as the party's nominee for president. The governor's aide also says he will skip the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this July.
