Kevin Gladish

1. Street closings, security checkpoints, tree trimming, flower planting — it’s going to start looking a lot like DNC!
2. Judge wants Chicago gang kingpin Larry Hoover in court for his mercy bid
3. The hope, the worry and the surreal that Illinois Black female Democratic delegates see in Kamala Harris’ moment
4. As the DNC returns to Chicago, Illinois’ dean of the delegation, Dick Durbin, basks in the moment
5. Democrats expect Republican leaders to send more buses of migrants to Chicago before the DNC
6. Video shows sheriff’s deputy shoot and kill an unarmed woman in Springfield, Ill.
7. Kamala Harris presidential campaign considering J.B. Pritzker as running mate