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>> nancy loo is live in the arlington heights neighborhood with more on the mayor's race. >> well, allison and steve, after failing to earn the support of the african-american coalition, state senator james meeks is spending much of today in chicago's latino community. but he claims his outing today has nothing to do with mayoral politics. now the reverend and state senator spent the morning touring a number of schools on the southwest side including the uno veterans memorial charter school. he cited the ongoing problem of overcrowding in chicago schools and afterwards left for a lun...

totals. cook county resumed counting at 8:00 this morning. it's in the process of counting 10 how to ballots. on the city side they resumed at 10 with 11,700 ballots to gsm late yesterday quinn led brady by 19,000 votes so it appears pat quinn may have avoided fate of other democratic governors nationwide and won his first full term. quinn has stopped short of calling on his opponent to concede but sure talked like a winner when he showed up at manny's deli at lunchtime. he said it was time to put the bitter campaign behind and he has a lot of work to dosm he re- iterated his support...

list of charges. >> the defendant was advised. he has five counts. two are potentially eligible for death penalty. two of the counts involve arson and drill sexual assault, he has two other charges we filed against the defendant of obstruction of justice and possession of a possession of a motor vehicle. >> curl appeared in a county courtroom in dekalb this morning at a hearing that lasted about ten minutes. he looked down as the charges were read. when asked if he understood the charges he mumwelled -- mumbled. authorities found the charred almosts - remains and her possessions in a...

at police headquarters with details on that story. >> reporter: good afternoon. superintendent jody weis has yet to comment on the lawsuit. a lawsuit that alleges the superintendent was in possession of evidence that would have cleared two officers wrongfully accused of police brutality but despite that information, lawyers say the superintendent elected to proceed with the press conference. >> he was in possession as evidence and he either never reviewed it or reviewed it and was not sure what he was looking for. >> reporter: lawyer daniel herbert says superintendent made defamatory...

illinois at chicago. leading off tonight, the battle for the senate, chicago style. before he was president, barack obama was a senator from illinois. now, chicago, a major battlefront and who controls the entire senate. we've got democratic candidate alexi giannoulias. florida senate candidate, charlie crist. called on his opponent opponent marco rubio a right-wing candidate. rubio accused crist of leaving the party, the republican party for his own survival. tonight, we will talk to charlie crist about his prospects on november 2nd and my home state, pennsylvania, the hot race for ...