Dirty Thirties revisited
TimeLine Theatre premieres “Black Sunday,” a climate change-inspired play by Chicago playwright Dolores Diaz. Developed through TimeLine’s playwrights collective, t.
Dozens of artists and ensembles from around the world showcase their work during Chicago s 5th International Puppet Theater Festival, which also features Chicago s Manual Cinema.
The Mini-Midterms: Five Takeaways from Six Decades of House Special Elections
A Commentary By Kyle Kondik
Thursday, April 15, 2021
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE There have been nearly 300 U.S. House special elections since the mid-1950s. These elections more often flipped against the party that holds the White House just like what often happens to the president’s party in midterm House elections but the president’s party has scored some noteworthy wins, too, which can cloud the predictive value of special elections.
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Six decades of special House election trends
Almost exactly 47 years ago April 16, 1974 Republicans suffered what would be the fourth of five U.S. House special election losses in the first half of that year. Bob Traxler (D), who would go on to serve two decades in the U.S. House, defeated James Sparling Jr. (R) in MI-8.