New congressional campaign commercial shows her pedaling bike with handsDemocrat Tammy Duckworth released a new television ad Wednesday touting her record of service, prompting quick criticism from Republican Rep. Joe Walsh, who previously had accused the challenger of exploiting her military career for political gain.

Colorado massacre quickly becomes politicalHow long does it take for a major American television news network to politicize mass murder and blame conservatives for the blood of innocents?

But event comes with political risks for Obama, EmanuelMayor Rahm Emanuel has touted the NATO summit as a way to showcase Chicago on an international stage, and much of the Chicago area agrees with that notion, a Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows.

Muddled Super Tuesday results to prompt campaign fight unlike any state has seen in decades Hours before Mitt Romney captured a narrow-but-essential victory in Ohio's Super Tuesday Republican presidential primary, a political action committee pushing his candidacy went up with TV ads in Chicago and around the state.

Chicago newsman whose career included stints in print, radio and TVIn a 60-year journalism career that spanned print, television and radio, John Madigan made his name interviewing the political elite in a sharp, straightforward manner that was critical but never rude.

A cultured Chicago mayor who isn't reluctant to twist a few earsAt one point in "Boss" — Starz's entertaining new TV drama of Chicago political corruption and steamy hotel-corridor sex that premieres Friday — the mayor of Chicago grabs a small Latino alderman.

Activist and founding faculty member of Roosevelt UniversityDale Pontius, a political science professor who was on the founding faculty at Roosevelt University, never lacked for a strong opinion.

Hoping to sway voters in tight statewide races, political groups pump cash into IllinoisAn unprecedented influx of political cash — most of it from outside Illinois — is feeding an inescapable wave of television attack ads aimed at manipulating voters in the final weeks of high-stakes campaigns for U.S. Senate and governor.

Temperature will only keep rising in U.S. Senate, governor, congressional contests The first major wave of TV political attack advertising assaulted Chicago-area viewers last week, and the barrage is only expected to grow stronger as candidates in high-stakes U.S. Senate, governor and congressional contests try to woo voters.

Fresh off a week of stunning Republican primary victories, several thousand exuberant and newly-empowered tea party followers descended on the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates on Saturday for Right Nation 2010 — a carefully choreographed night of conservative political cheerleading, headlined by radio and TV host Glenn Beck.