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A suburban billionaire and his wife contributed more than $36 million to Republican candidates and conservative groups or causes in Illinois and across the nation in the month before November's election and in the weeks that followed.
Four years after Democrats made significant gains in the region, several of the collar counties turned a darker shade of blue on Tuesday. Democrats flipped key state House districts in the Northwest suburbs. Democrats solidified control of the Lake County Board. The GOP has no representation in Congress from northeastern Illinois. And in DuPage, Democratic state Rep. Deb Conroy became the first woman elected county board chair.
When the shooting began at the Fourth of July parade in downtown Highland Park, it appeared to come from an automatic weapon being fired from the top of an apartment building on Second Street, witnesses said. Then people started running, and looking for loved ones. And some saw a terrible carnage afterward.
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Participating club members unanimously agreed through electronic communications Friday to postpone the raffle indefinitely because it became a distraction to what they say is a much larger and necessary discussion which needs to take place about violence locally and across the country.
A Lake County Democratic leader has called on the Lake Villa Township Republican Club to cancel a planned raffle of five guns scheduled as part of a fundraiser.