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  • Clinton Superdelegate Reveals He Voted for Obama (CQPolitics.com)
    CQPolitics.com - Clinton superdelegate Brad Ellsworth said Wednesday that he cast his vote in the May 6 Indiana Democratic presidential primary for Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, adding yet another intriguing twist to the mystery of just who the conservative freshman lawmaker supports.
  • John Edwards to endorse Obama in White House race (Reuters)
    Reuters - Former Democratic U.S. presidential candidate John Edwards will endorse Barack Obama's White House bid on Wednesday, a campaign spokeswoman said, giving a big boost to the Illinois senator in his effort to rally the party around his candidacy.
  • Chicago Fed's Evans: Interest Rates 'Accomodative'
    PALATINE, Illinois -- Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans said on Monday that U.S. interest rates are 'accommodative' and at the right level given a weak growth outlook. 'My judgment is that the current net stance of monetary policy is
  • Three former U.S. SEC chairmen endorse Obama (Reuters)

    US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks at the Thorngate Limited garment factory in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on the night of the West Virginia presidential primary, May 13, 2008. (John Gress/Reuters)Reuters - Three former chairmen of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Wednesday, bolstering the Illinois senator's economic credentials and bipartisan appeal as he closes in on his party's nomination.



  • Ag leadership class visits Ukraine, Czech Republic and Poland
    MACOMB, Ill. - The Illinois Agricultural Leadership Program's Class of 2008 returned recently after spending 11 days studying in Ukraine, the Czech Republic and Poland.This international travel seminar is considered by most IALP alumni as the apex of the
  • Clinton's big win not enough
    HILLARY Clinton has trounced Barack Obama in the West Virginia primary, US networks say - but the result will have little impact on their race overall. In their projections, MSNBC and Fox said the former first lady had beaten her rival from Illinois by a
  • Obama Focuses on November, Clinton on West Virginia (Bloomberg)

    US Democratic presidential hopeful Illinois Senator Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally at the Kentucky International Convention Center on May 12, 2008 in Louisville, Kentucky. Obama looked headed for a crushing defeat to Hillary Clinton in Tuesday's West Virginia primary but was already cranking up a general-election battle against Republican John McCain.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)Bloomberg - May 13 (Bloomberg) -- Today's primary in West Virginia matters so little to the Democratic presidential nomination race that front-runner Barack Obama will spend the day in Missouri and Michigan, two battleground states in the fall's general election.
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Illinois became the United States twenty-first state on December 3, 1818. The capital is Springfield. The state's largest city is Chicago. Illinois is an Algonquin word meaning "tribe of superior men". Illinois was the first state to ratify the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery. The tallest skyscraper in North America is the Sears Tower in Chicago. Illinois is the birthplace of President Ronald Reagan. The Land of Lincoln measures 55,593 square miles, ranking it 24th in the Union.

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