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…Among white voters, Barack leads 46 to 34 percent * Among black voters, Barack leads 91 to 4 percent * In Chicago, Barack leads 74 percent to 15 percent AB…

…closely contested than the Republican and the Democratic machine in Chicago probably worked harder to get out the vote than the downstate Republican machine (this will change in the general…

…two different answers. This piece in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune shows that the tensions between different flavors of “fiscally conservative” Republicans are growing. And there’s no easy resolution in sight. Kash…

…Plame’s name to a columnist will be overseen by U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald of Chicago, who will report to new Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey, sources said. AB…

Are Faculty in the Humanities Liberal? Yes, almost surely so. But Stanley Fish, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has…

…chief executive of the Chicago-based company. But on Monday, Sears, 56, a resident of Lake Forest, was fired from his $1.2 million-per-year job. His wife said he was unavailable for…

…“something more important,” like the World Series prospects of his hometown Chicago Cubs. AB P.S. Rumsfeld also said this: “The way I read the memorandum is that it is basically…

…in the humanities, but that is likely offset by the center-Right views in most economics departments and business schools. I’m unsure about the typical composition of a political science department,…

Even the Conservative Dan Drezner University of Chicago Political Science professor Dan Drezner, a smart guy even if he is conservative, writes in the current issue of The New Republic…

…and his editor at the Chicago Tribune think that Arianna Huffington fits the bill. In the same story, Recall election drive is a California classic, Tribune national correspondent Vincent J….