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A couple bought the North Side house to save it from demolition and preserve Walter Netsch's eccentric floor plan. Now they want to protect the home's interior.

Can the new, even more right-leaning crowd under ticket-leader Darren Bailey succeed in a state's that's historically liked its Republicans on the moderate side?

Lessons about money, a growing progressive movement and City Council members aiming for higher office. Plus a Darren Bailey primer. 

Richard M. Daley was destined to plant lots of trees on the median strips of Chicago’s streets. But first he had to get elected mayor. A look back at his formative political years.

AP Former state Sen. Bill Morris of Waukegan has some advice for the 19 House Democrats who want to overthrow Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. “They have to come up with a better name,” said Morris, a member of the so-called Crazy Eight group of independent-minded Democrats who sparked a six-week battle in 1977 for the Illinois Senate presidency. Morris was mostly joking. “The 19,” as the group is currently known, has bigger challenges than what to call itself, not least of which...