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A.L. "Archie" Bowmen shaped state welfare programs early in the 20th century, including Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's School in Normal.

Logic suggests that someone who has served as public guardian, a lawyer appointed to represent minors in court, would be a by-the-book mother to her own children. But logic rarely appears in stories about Mary Belle Spencer and her daughters who regularly wound up in the news early in the last century. Spencer was Cook County’s public guardian from 1918 to 1921, among the first women in that ...

Will this summer’s Democratic Party national convention in Milwaukee be a slugfest? Hard to say. Either way, the unexpected choice of Calvin Coolidge for vice president at the 1920 GOP national convention shows that Convention surprises are not without precedent in American political history. 

Pritzker is casting a wide net for support, an effort aided by a personal fortune that can underwrite months’ worth of TV ads and a robust campaign operation.

Four years ago, Pritzker encouraged voters to "think big" about challenges facing Illinois. This time, his mantra could well be "play it safe and leave nothing to chance."