Not all doom and gloom

Illinois is broke and the state's unemployment rate was 7.3 percent last month, but the good news is changes are coming to the Illinois Senate.

It's a rare day you'll find us praising a Chicago Democrat. So today is a rare day. We could hardly be happier about the impending election of John Cullerton as president of the Illinois Senate, not so much because of what Cullerton is but because of who he isn't. He isn't Emil Jones.