Walsh holds slim margin, but Bean isn't walking awayRelishing his unexpectedly strong Election Day showing, Joe Walsh posed the rhetorical question both parties will have to confront if he holds on to his sliver of a margin over northwest suburban Democratic Rep. Melissa Bean.

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.

Judge overturns ruling, putting Crenshaw back in the race A Will County judge Wednesday ruled to put a Bolingbrook Republican and tea party favorite back on the ballot for a state Senate race.

Conservative media outlets take up the cause of Cedra Crenshaw after the Republican is removed from Illinois Senate race A ballot controversy in an Illinois Senate race has transformed a stay-at-home mom into a tea party darling whose story is being heard on conservative media outlets nationwide.

Video of comments about citizenship posted on YouTube — When a man with a video camera at a tea party protest asked Champaign Mayor Jerry Schweighart what he thought of President Barack Obama, the three-term Republican didn't hesitate.

Activists rally to denounce taxes, Obama In its only planned swing through northern Illinois, the Tea Party Express national bus tour stopped Tuesday in Rockford, where an estimated 1,000 activists gathered under overcast skies to denounce taxes, health care changes, state and federal lawmakers and Presiden...