Mayor Slay mingles at a Capitol Hill reception Sunday

WASHINGTON — Francis Slay endured one of his toughest moments as mayor exactly a year ago, when his speech at the 2008 Martin Luther King Jr. Day ceremony was drowned out by a…

Sen. John McCain’s campaign this morning brought out former Illinois Sen. Peter Fitzgerald to discuss Sen. Barack Obama’s record. Fitzgerald, as the campaign pointed out several times, is the only person to have served both in the Illinois State Senate as…

Throughout the Democratic and Republican conventions, we’ll be providing short profiles of local delegates.

Here is another “Delegate Spotlight.”

Name: Ed Geppert

Age: 60

Hometown: Belleville

Political experience: President of the Illinois Federation of Teachers since 2007; taught social science at Cahokia High School;…

DENVER — Issues of racism and sexism have broken open in the Illinois delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Denver today, hampering efforts of Barack Obama’s home team to show a united front to the country tonight.

It began when…