Chairman of major voting machine firm faces scrutiny for partisan political donations

Devin Talbott, founder of the Maryland-based investment firm Enlightenment Capital and chairman of voting machine giant Hart ...

When government websites become campaign tools: Blaming the shutdown on Democrats has legal and political risks

When websites and email systems become partisan platforms, the line blurs between state and party, diluting public trust in ...

No ethics reform in sight as ex-speaker’s scheduled prison term begins

As his predecessor’s scheduled 7.5-year prison term for public corruption begins, the speaker of the Illinois House is not ...
Chicago magazine

The Birth and Death of the Machine

1 De La Salle Institute was the birthplace of the Chicago political machine. After the Catholic lay group Christian Brothers opened the South Side private high school in 1889, generations of Daleys ...