Topic: Jim Allen

Turnout was low early Tuesday as Chicago residents headed to the polls to vote in the city's mayoral election, officials said.

A Chicago woman originally from Spain celebrated her 102nd birthday by becoming a U.S. citizen, registering to vote and casting her ballot.

The Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland and a smattering of nice juvenile races highlight the weekend racing schedule.

A Republican county chairman in central Illinois resigned after referring to a black ex-Miss America who is running for Congress as a "streetwalker."

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago say touch-screen voting machines may be vulnerable to tampering.

The last name of Illinois gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney is spelled "Whitey" on voting machines in some African-American wards, election officials said.

One of the U.S. missionaries arrested in Haiti as they allegedly tried to take children out of the country said Friday the group had "good intentions."

A man who requested that his sentencing at a Ramsey County, Minn., court be delayed so he could vote failed to show up for his hearing, officials said.

About 60 dogs competed this weekend at the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo in events an organizer described as "like the Olympics."

A U.S. research team reports succeeding in evolving several new proteins in a fraction of the 3-billion-year period it took nature to do the same.