Local news

• Continuing with Kopczick

  Wednesday, April 10

  After a "long, drawn-out race," election night ended fairly quickly for newly re-elected Morris Mayor Richard Kopczick.

• ELECTION 2013: THE RESULTS

  Tuesday, April 9

  Even before the final votes were counted, according to Morris Mayor Richard Kopczick, his closest opponent in the three-way race had conceded Tuesday evening's election to the incumbent Democrat.

• Voting brings election season to close

  Tuesday, April 9

  This year’s elections include a number of contested races, including mayoral contests in Morris, Carbon Hill and Minooka.

Township news

• Democratic leaders: We held onto state House, Senate

  Wednesday, November 7

  (MCT) — Democrats preserved their long-running majorities in the state House and Senate on Tuesday, according to party leaders who said Illinois voters had rewarded their leadership in Springfield.

• Indicted former lawmaker on way to winning state House race

  Wednesday, November 7

  (MCT) — Indicted former state Rep. Derrick Smith was on his way Tuesday to writing a new chapter in Illinois political notoriety by regaining his House seat just months after being impeached and expelled over his federal bribery arrest.

• Chicago elections officials apologize for polling place confusion

  Wednesday, November 7

  (MCT) — Chicago elections officials apologized to the hundreds of frustrated Chicago voters who were turned away from their neighborhood polling places today amid confusion and sometimes angry exchanges.

School news

• Obama, Romney surpassed $2 billion in campaign fundraising

  Friday, December 7

  (MCT) — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney shattered spending records during their 2012 campaigns, eclipsing $2 billion in fundraising, the campaigns disclosed Thursday.

• Obama and Romney meet at White House, pledge to ‘stay in touch’

  Friday, November 30

  (MCT) — WASHINGTON — Their relationship seemed doomed from the start. It was mostly a long-distance affair conducted in public exchanges, tempered by occasional awkward gestures of warmth but more often singed by open hostility. It most likely ended, mercifully, Thursday over white turkey chili and Southwestern grilled chicken salad.

• Obama: Voters support my plan to raise taxes on wealthy

  Thursday, November 15

  (MCT) — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Wednesday that his re-election showed that the majority of voters agreed with him that taxes should be raised on the wealthiest Americans as part of a solution to reduce the nation’s gaping budget deficit.