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Chicago election officials say an aldermanic candidate for the 16th Ward has been arrested. Election board spokesman Jim Allen said candidate Hal Baskin was briefly arrested at a polling place on the city's South Side. "It was some kind of verbal assault of some sort, a feeling of being th

A state-wide smoking ban continues to move through the Indiana legislature.

Eight Forty-Eight hosted live analysis of the aldermanic run-off election. She was joined by WBEZ political reporter Sam Hudzik and the Chicago Sun-Times Laura Washington.

Former Cook County Board President Todd Stroger says he was never alerted to any problems at a summer youth jobs program that is now the subject of a federal criminal investigation.In an interview with WBEZ, Stroger dismissed claims of misconduct at the program made by current President Toni Preckwi

While the protests in the Middle East continue to make news, the protests in Honduras barely make a ripple.

For awhile, it looked like Bahrain’s Sunni minority government might negotiate with the Shiite protesters camped out in the capital city Manama. That window of possibility closed after security forces fired on a crowd of demonstrators in March.

On April 5, 1986, Libyan agents bombed a Berlin disco frequented by U.S. soldiers. Two Americans were killed and more than 50 servicemen were injured. Several days later President Ronald Reagan ordered a series of airstrikes on Libya.