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• Icy find raises hopes

  Daily Herald, December 31, 2004 The U.S. government may have located the wreckage of a Navy airplane that crashed in Antarctica in 1946, killing th...

• Kenilworth woman marks 100th birthday at NSSC

  Pioneer Press, December 23, 2004For Mildred Klatte of Kenilworth, the best answer to why she reached 100 years old this week might be that she never s...

• Fort Sheridan may generate new tax revenue for two towns

  Pioneer Press, December 16, 2004 Fort Sheridan housing may be able to generate more than $1 million of new property tax revenue to help educate chi...

• 3 suburbs may get tax boon

  Chicago Tribune, December 11, 2004 Glenview, Highland Park and Highwood stand to gain millions in tax revenue, thanks to a Navy plan to privatize m...

• GIs come up short on armor, answers

  Chicago Sun Times, December 10, 2004 Oh, great. Someone is now going to "sit down" with Spec. Thomas Wilson to, in the inimitable words of Donald R...

• Kirk to deliver 1,600 letters

  Waukegan News Sun, December 10, 2004 DEERFIELD — More than 1,600 holiday cards and letters for troops in Iraq have been received by the office of...

• In House, a band of new rebels

  Christian Science Monitor, December 10, 2004 WASHINGTON - After dubbing President Bush's "open door" border policy a threat to national security, R...

• Headed to Iraq

  Daily Herald, December 10, 2004 ...

• Kirk delivers good cheer to troops

  Pioneer Press, December 9, 2004 U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, R-10th, of Highland Park, will make a special delivery to the troops serving in Iraq this holi...

• Clean Air campaign aims for Lake-Cook Corridor

  Pioneer Press, December 9, 2004 Even as critics accuse the White House of softening national enforcement of environmental standards, there's a way ...

• The Thursday Wrap

  Pittsburgh Tribune Review, December 9, 2004 For all those bleeding heart liberals out there lamenting that defoliants are being used to destroy Afg...

• Heroin traffic finances bin Laden

  The Washington Times, December 6, 2004 Osama bin Laden is using cash from the Afghanistan heroin market to finance his life on the run, paying body...

• Officials pledge quick work in crafting Great Lakes plan

  Chicago Tribune, December 4, 2004 With great fanfare and ceremony, Great Lakes leaders promised Friday to spend no longer than a year figuring out ...

• Benefits brouhaha brings in feds

  Chicago Sun Times, December 4, 2004 Responding to a Chicago Sun-Times investigation, the head of the federal Veterans Affairs Department in Washing...

• Congressman Kirk headed to Iraq to check election progress

  U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, R-Highland Park, announced Thursday that he will be joining some of his colleagues from Washington on a trip to Iraq to evaluat...

• Chicago anti-gun program is losing its funding

  WLS-TV ABC-7, December 3, 2004 It has helped cut violent crimes in Chicago, but now an anti-gun program is losing its funding from the federal gove...

• Centrists and conservatives join forces for fiscal restraint

  The Hill, November 24, 2004 Conservative and centrist Republicans are pressing the House leadership to adopt reforms early in the new Congress to c...

• Kirk to head moderate Republican bloc

  Pioneer Press, November 24, 2004 U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, R-10th, has been chosen to head a group of moderate Republicans in the House of Representativ...

• What's up with Kruesi and crew?

  Crain’s Chicago Business, November 19, 2004 Having crawled out on a political limb, leaders of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) apparently are...

• Kirk elected to leadership of House GOP group

  News Sun, November 19, 2004 U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, R-Highland Park, has been elected co-chairman of the U.S. House Republican Tuesday Group. The gro...

• The avoidable transit crisis

  Chicago Tribune, November 19, 2004 At a news conference Thursday, Chicago Transit Authority officials issued an ultimatum to the General Assembly: ...

• Reflecting on freedom

  Pioneer Press, November 18, 2004 Nearly 200 people heard veterans speak with intensity and conviction about the important work of the U.S. armed fo...

• GOP leaders will choose next spending chief

  The Times Reporter, November 15, 2004 WASHINGTON – High noon for Rep. Ralph Regula and his two rivals for the vaunted post of House Appropriation...

• N. Chicago VA hospital gets grant

  Chicago Tribune, November 13, 2004 A decision to expand services at the North Chicago Veterans Affairs Medical Center got a boost this week, thanks...

• VA Medical plans kick off

  News Sun, November 10, 2004 NORTH CHICAGO — Standing in the middle of a clean and modern, but vacant floor of in-patient rooms at the Veterans Ad...

• Low blow

  The State Journal-Register, November 9, 2004 If your friend asked you for your opinion on that new flavor, Twista Lime, what do you think you'd say...

• VA Medical Center work

  News Sun; News Digest, November 8, 2004 NORTH CHICAGO - A $10 million project to renovate surgical facilities and expand the emergency room at Nort...

• Police aid police

  News Sun, November 5, 2004 A young Mundelein soldier in Baghdad reached out to the Mundelein Police Department asking them to help the Iraqi police...

• Kirk urges using Skyway deal to bail out CTA

  Chicago Tribune, October 26, 2004 Instead of changing the region's mass-transit funding formula to fix the Chicago Transit Authority's budget woes,...

• Arts group gives state delegation good grade

  Chicago Tribune, October 19, 2004 A national arts advocacy group is to release Tuesday its first congressional report card, giving Illinois' House ...

• Iraq intelligence one of worst U.S. failures, congressman says

  One of the inner circle of legislators who advised President Bush on the wording of a resolution authorizing him to use force in Iraq now says infor...

• House votes to end D.C. gun ban

  Chicago Tribue, September 30, 2004 WASHINGTON -- The House voted Wednesday to end a 28-year ban on handgun ownership in the nation's capital, brush...

• House Leaders Promise Clean Bill on Intelligence

  The Hill, September 29, 2004 ouse Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) said he is confident that the intelligence-reform bill will pass without any ...

• Bolingbrook Woman Takes Cancer Crusade to Washington

  Naperville Sun, September 24, 2004   Tobacco's toll - According to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, tobacco use is the nation's leading preven...

• Cigarette Flavors Not Sweet to Some

  Chicago Tribune, September 20, 2004 With names like Kauai Kolada, Caribbean Chill and Twista Lime, the products sound like refreshing carbonated be...

• Congress Urged to Give FDA Power Over Tobacco

  Chicago Sun-Times, September 20, 2004 Cigarette makers insist candy-flavored smokes are nothing more than a novel twist on tobacco aimed at adults....

• 9/11 Tribute Proposed for CVC

  Roll Call, September 13, 2004 The Capitol Visitor Center could become home to more than 50 new statues, including a memorial to the Sept. 11 attack...

• Lakeside nuke sites too tempting a target for terrorists

  Chicago Sun-Times, September 8, 2004 Akey environmental issue is facing the Midwest. Ironically, a majority of the Congress and the president want ...

• Stevenson High students make documentary about Mississippi civil rights homicides

  News Sun, August 30, 2004 LINCOLNSHIRE - A national movement to reopen the famed civil rights-era Mississippi Burning triple homicide case is gaini...

• What's Behind Troop Movement

  Chicago Sun-Times, August 23, 2004 The dirty little secret about the Bush administration's decision to move U.S. troops out of Europe and Korea is ...

• Possible cleanup could mean lakefront condos

  Daily Herald, August 6, 2004 Condominiums are projected for a heavily polluted Superfund site on Waukegan's lakefront that is targeted for a $27 mi...

• Missionaries Back Home

  News Sun, August 5, 2004 WAUKEGAN - Church mission volunteers stranded in Africa are back home. The 10 volunteers, members of Wesley Free Methodis...

• Kirk Honors 10 Citizens

  Pioneer Press: Highland Park News, August 5, 2004U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Highland Park) hosted a ceremony Tuesday honoring 10 individuals with his firs...

• $1.4 million grant aids harbor cleanup

  Chicago Tribune, July 30, 2004 WAUKEGAN -- The cleanup of polluted Waukegan Harbor received a major funding boost with the injection of $1.4 millio...

• Water line funds OK'd

  News Sun/Lake County News Digest, July 30, 2004 Waukegan - Federal funds have been secured to replace and lower a water line that runs through Wauk...

• County vets file their WWII stories

  News Sun, July 21, 2004 World War II veterans from Waukegan were among those filing vivid remembrances of their combat experience with the Library ...

• County's Smart Traffic Project Marks Initial Passage

  News Sun, June 30, 2004 With state road-widening projects slowing to a crawl and a spring referendum to finance local traffic improvements defeated...

• Ground broken on transportation center

  Daily Herald, June 30, 2004 Lake County's much-ballyhooed traffic management center will do more than ease the region's notorious gridlock, propone...

• Bluff protection at Fort Sheridan gets big boost

  Pioneer Press: Deerfield Review, June 24, 2004 Lake Michigan bluff areas at Fort Sheridan have taken another step toward protection from developmen...

• House Panel Pushes World Bank Return to Iraq

  New York Times, June 24, 2004 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank's absence from Iraq under the U.S.-led occupation drew criticism on Wednesday f...

• Kirk aims to keep lake bluffs from developers

  Chicago Sun-Times, June 22, 2004 A proposed new law transfers ownership of Lake Michigan bluffs at Fort Sheridan from the Navy to an environmental ...

• Lake bluff preservation gets backing

  News Sun, June 22, 2004 Preservation of a rare undeveloped stretch of Lake Michigan shoreline on Fort Sheridan property is closer to reality with U...

• Measure would protect bluffs

  Chicago Tribune, June 22, 2004 Loaded with rare plants such as Canadian buffalo berry and home to endangered songbirds such as the cerulean warbler...

• Navy property on lake could become park

  Daily Herald, June 22, 2004 A secluded two-mile stretch of Lake Michigan shoreline that has remained much the same since explorers saw it centuries...

• Lakefront park planned for old army post

  News Sun, June 18, 2004 FORT SHERIDAN — U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, R-Highland Park, announced Thursday he has won approval for legislation to block any...

• LaHood Bill Would Ban Bell's Filing

  The Hill, June 17, 2004 Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.) proposed legislation yesterday that would prohibit lame-duck lawmakers from filing ethics complain...

• Kirk Asks Feds To Probe Beach Closings

  Chicago Sun-Times, June 16, 2004 Science is being summoned to the growing debate over whether that's really "cheesehead" E. coli fouling our beache...

• Kirk Attacks Task Force Report On RTA

  News Sun, June 15, 2004 GURNEE — Lake County, along with other collar counties in the greater Chicago area, should have equal representation as C...

• County Rallies For Voice In Transit Reform

  Daily Herald, June 15, 2004 Lake County insists it won't take a back seat on Chicago area transportation issues in a growing suburban backlash agai...

• Crane Lauds Old Presidential Foe

  News Sun, June 7, 2004Lake County officials are mourning the loss of former President Ronald Reagan. Although Congressman Phil Crane of Wauconda ran...

• House GOP Pushing for Budget Reforms

  Roll Call, June 7, 2004 With the fiscal 2004 spending blueprint still in a holding pattern, House leaders are pushing forward on reforming the budg...

• U.S. Lacks Plan To End Afghanistan Drug Trade

  Washington Times, June 1, 2004    Farmers in Afghanistan have harvested another bumper crop of heroin-producing poppies, but the Bush administra...

• Highest Honor Also The Rarest

  Daily Herald, May 31, 2004 Since its creation in 1861, the Medal of Honor - our nation's highest military award - has been awarded only 3,459 times...

• Appropriators Gird For Fight Over Budget Enforcement

  Congress Daily, May 27, 2004    In honoring a commitment made in March to House GOP conservatives, Republican leaders face what could be a conte...

• Governor declares disaster area

  Pioneer Press: Gurnee Review, May 27, 2004 Governor declares disaster area After touring the flooded areas of Gurnee and Des Plaines via helicopte...

• Round-the-Clock Efforts Save School

  Pioneer Press: Gurnee Review, May 27, 2004 Thanks to some very devoted volunteers, including a few who literally slept in Gurnee Grade School a few...

• Water, Water Everywhere

  Pioneer Press: Mount Prospect Times, May 27, 2004 A coming crest of water on the Des Plaines River led Prospect Heights to declare a state of emerg...

• Senior Opens Up New Doors Of Access At Stevenson High School

  Pioneer Press: Lincolnshire Review, May 27, 2004 Stevenson High School seniors will graduate June 6 during a ceremony at Welsh Ryan Arena at Northw...

• Suburban Flooding

  Daily Herald, May 25, 2004 As forecasters predicted the worst flooding in nearly 20 years, hundreds of volunteers turned out Monday to fill sandbag...

• River keeps inching higher

  Daily Herald, May 25, 2004 As forecasters predicted the worst flooding in nearly 20 years, hundreds of volunteers filled the Warren Township High S...

• Floods not finished with suburbs

  Chicago Sun-Times, May 25, 2004 Soaked suburbanites living along the Des Plaines River, some already suffering after record levels of flooding, are...

• Gurnee Hopes For Disaster Aid To Fight Floods

  Daily Herald, May 25, 2004 As floodwaters crest at a record level, Gurnee officials are looking to the state and federal governments for financial ...

• Stevenson student wins national art contest

  Daily Herald, May 24, 2004 A Stevenson High School student's artwork will hang in the U.S. Capitol as part of a national art program. Amanda Marsh...

• Get moving on the Great Lakes

  Chicago Tribune, May 24, 2004 Summer is almost here and that means millions of Chicagoans will make the pilgrimage to Lake Michigan beaches. In too...

• Kirk sees recreational potential of river

  Pioneer Press, May 22, 2004 On a hazy Saturday morning, a 26-foot canoe carried a handful of inexperienced paddlers down a four-mile portion of the...

• Bucking White House, House Votes To Delay Base Closings

  Congress Daily, May 20, 2004 Breaking with a decision this week by the Senate, the House voted today to oppose the Bush administration's effort to ...

• Military Recruits

  Roll Call, May 19, 2004 Retired Rear Adm. James Carey is on a mission. As chairman of the National Defense Political Action Committee, he’s exec...

• Military medicine

  News Sun, May 12, 2004 VA, Navy hospitals share resources in advance of merger Signs of the the planned merger of Navy and Veteran Affairs medical...

• Nra Endorsement Of Bush Is On Hold

  The Hill, May 12, 2004 An influential gun-rights group known for backing Republicans is unlikely to endorse President Bush until after the federal ...

• Insurance Costs Threaten Nearby Healthcare

  CBS 2 Chicago, May 10, 2004 Doctors are leaving the profession -- or the state -- because they can no longer afford to pay for malpractice insuranc...

• Illinois Congressmen Lobby Against Train Horn Rule

  News Sun, April 22, 2004 Members of the Illinois congressional delegation continued lobbying against a proposed federal train horn rule this week a...

• Kirk, students urge safe prom night

  Pioneer Press, April 22, 2004 Congressman Mark Kirk, R-10th, of Highland Park, and his Student Leadership Advisory Board joined Comcast Cable at De...

• Students Tell Congressman Education Challenges

  News Sun, April 20, 2004 WAUKEGAN — Laura Nieto, a 16-year-old Waukegan high school student, knows firsthand the challenges many Latino students ...

• Waukegan won't allow harbor PCBs in dump

  Chicago Tribune, April 16, 2004 After months of often acrimonious talks over a proposal to clean up Waukegan Harbor, the city has rejected the idea...

• Metra-Pace Merger Gets Panel's OK

  Chicago Sun-Times, April 15, 2004 Despite suburban fears of fewer buses and more city clout, a local task force led by Rep. Bill Lipinski (D-Ill.) ...

• Federal Road Bill Has Plenty For State

  Pioneer Press, April 15, 2004 Who could benefit from a $275 billion federal highway bill? Clearly, Illinois, says local representatives. "When yo...

• Transit Vote Draws Fire

  Chicago Tribune, April 15, 2004 A regional task force charged with coming up with ways to improve area transportation voted Wednesday to revamp the...

• Suburban Flight Dispatcher to Recount Worst Day

  Daily Herald, April 14, 2004 Today, Ed Ballinger will speak to a roomful of strangers about the one subject he doesn't care to discuss: The first t...

• City-Suburb Transit 'War' Looms Large

  Daily Herald, April 14, 2004 A vote today on an effort to reform the region's transportation agencies may lead to "open warfare" and "Armageddon" b...

• Panel Could Map New Route For RTA

  Crain''s Chicago Business, April 10, 2004 A high-powered gubernatorial advisory panel is about to roll the dice on a proposed remake of the Chicago...

• Immigration Forum

  News Sun, April 7, 2004 The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will hold an informational community forum on May 1, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. a...

• Waukegan Pressed on Harbor

  Chicago Tribune, April 7, 2004 Pressure is mounting on Waukegan to reach an agreement on the cleanup of its polluted harbor, a project that would l...

• Route 60 Bridge on House Legislation

  Daily Herald, April 3, 2004 Lake County officials celebrated Friday the inclusion of local road projects in the U.S. House's newly approved transpo...

• Lake County Road Funding OK'd By House

  News Sun, April 3, 2004 Lake County and Illinois emerged as winners in a federal transportation bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives ...

• How Northwest Suburbs May Benefit From Transportation Bill

  Daily Herald, April 3, 2004 Despite not having yet earned a dime in federal funding, Metra's proposed STAR Line connecting O'Hare International Air...

• Ecstasy Sting Nets 5,000 Pills

  Pioneer Press, April 1, 2004 County and state law enforcement agencies chose Deerfield as the site of a successful sting operation last week that r...

• STAR Line Funding Hinges on Congress

  Pioneer Press, April 1, 2004 The deadline for shoring up federal transportation dollars for Illinois projects is looming, and suburban leaders are ...

• Kirk Says Funds Depend On City, Suburban Pact

  Pioneer Press, April 1, 2004 The suburbs and Chicago need to stop fighting each other and band together or northeastern Illinois will lose out to s...

• Washington Teamwork Pays Dividends

  Daily Herald, March 30, 2004 Illinois was a loser in the last federal transportation bill, but a powerful one-two legislative punch should ensure t...

• Turning In Terrorists: Take the Money and Run

  New York Times, March 28, 2004 HOW much is Osama bin Laden worth? Does $50 million sound about right? Last week, the House passed, 414-0, the Coun...

• Planning Agency Merger Plan Raises Chicago-suburb Issues

  Chicago Tribune, March 18, 2004 A state proposal to merge two regional planning agencies has raised concerns among some suburban officials who beli...

• Panel Vote Draws Battle Lines for Pay-as-You-Go Tax Cuts

  New York Times, March 17, 2004 WASHINGTON, March 17 — Setting up a potential showdown with the Senate, Republicans on the House Budget Committee ...

• Mayor, Aldermen Vow Casino Rejection Not the End

  News Sun, March 16, 2004 WAUKEGAN — Mayor Richard Hyde and city officials put a positive face on the rejection of Waukegan's casino bid Monday ni...

• Bill to Increase Rewards for Terrorist Information Scheduled for House Floor Action

  Congressional Quarterly, March 15, 2004 The reward for information leading to the capture of Osama bin Laden and other terrorist leaders could go u...

• Casino or not, Waukegan's got plans

  Daily Herald, March 15, 2004 Waukegan's big plans for a renaissance don't hinge on whether it captures the state's last casino license, according t...

• Kirk: Traffic Relief Coming

  Pioneer Press, March 11, 2004 A new $5.8 million high-tech system being constructed this year will coordinate 145 major traffic signals throughout ...

• Mayors Get Good News On Transportation Leaders Working to Streamline Commutes

  Daily Herald, March 9, 2004 North suburban mayors Monday received some hope - and advice - regarding solutions to transportation matters. A fiber ...

• Kirk Expects Appropriation for Harbor Cleanup

  News Sun, March 9, 2004 Despite another year of tight governmental budgets, U.S. Rep Mark Kirk, R-Highland Park, was optimistic about pending trans...

• Budget Reforms Weighed

  Roll Call, March 8, 2004 House Republican leaders are discussing how they might use a series of recently unveiled spending reform proposals as leve...

• Kirk presents grant for Stevenson home

  Pioneer Press, February 26, 2004U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, R-10th, of Highland Park, made a recent visit at the former home of Adlai Stevenson III in Mettaw...

• Area officials tell feds: Be flexible on train-horn rules

  Pioneer Press, February 19, 2004 The sound of a train horn blaring from a nearby crossing elicited a chuckle from the group that gathered Monday af...

• Rail horn ban costs disputed

  Chicago Tribune, February 17, 2004 The Federal Railroad Administration on Monday estimated it would cost $4 million for Chicago-area communities to...

• Kirk raises concerns about new rule on train horns

  News Sun, February 17, 2004 Concerns about a proposed new federal rule and a report that could end the ban on train locomotive horn-blowing in 50...

• Kirk qualifies support for housing changes

  Pioneer Press, January 15, 2004 Congressman Mark S. Kirk, R-10th, of Highland Park, has notified U.S. Navy officials that his support for housing i...

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