...at the proposed dinner featuring Rep. Mike Quigley, former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, and the Hearty Boys -- the gay Chicago couple that hosted a Food Network show.
Quigley and the Hearty Boys are hosting a "Families Valued" dinner Monday, and they've invited the flagrantly anti-gay Huckabee.
Michael Demetrio says that when his wife ran for office, there was one place, and only one place, she turned for money: their own bank.
“We have a fairly firm philosophy,” Demetrio says. “We do not take funds from anyplace else besides us.” Read more...
The Current's May print edition is now available at bars, restaurants and other locations around Chicago. Here's a story from the paper. More to come on Monday.
Mark Kirk entered the U.S. Senate race as a golden child of Illinois’ Republican Party, winning handily in his GOP primary for Barack Obama’s old seat. Read more...
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady said tax returns he will release today show that his family's real-estate business is suffering, along with many others in the state.
They will illustrate, he argues, how the "Blagojevich-Quinn administration" has hurt economic development across Illinois. Read more...
U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk released his 2009 tax return on Friday. It was an opportunity for reporters to examine the congressman's income, and his allegiance to Uncle Sam.
As I reported last week, Kirk released the return partly as a challenge to Alexi Giannoulias, who filed for an extension on his taxes. Giannoulias' campaign has not released a copy of the extension papers or any preliminary tax information, or elaborated on why he requested one. Read more...
