Editor’s note: This piece was submitted to The Daily before a federal judge temporarily blocked troop deployments in the Chicago area Thursday. Our forefathers told us when to pull the alarm. In...

U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) led the 19-member Illinois delegation in sending a letter to President Donald Trump on Monday, requesting he reverse his decision to send...

Thirteen Illinois Congress members sent a letter to President Donald Trump Monday opposing his plan to send the National Guard to Chicago.  U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.),...

It was the Spring of 1970; The War in Vietnam was in full force and U.S. troops were going into Cambodia. American college students went full bore into protest mode, and four students at Kent State (as...

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) questioned Gen. Joseph Lengyel, chief of the National Guard, about the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops to the Southwest border on Tuesday. Durbin,...