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Each time an election comes along, voters have questions about early voting, voting by mail, polling place locations and more.

Despite the ballot's confusing wording, voters in the Village of Winnebago will have to decide whether establishments should be allowed to sell alcohol across the entire community.

16th Congressional District Representative Adam Kinzinger stopped by the WROK Morning Show on Wednesday morning.

I'm sure the very first question that comes to mind is "Where the h*** is Colp, Illinois?" Good question, but next time, let's watch the language. Colp, Illinois is almost exactly 367.2 miles south of Rockford, or about a 5 hour, 20 minute ride down I-39 to I-57.

I once worked for a local political campaign, and while my candidate didn't win the election, he won my enduring respect for insisting that the campaign staff quickly remove all of his many yard signs from wherever they'd been placed. I can think of many other candidates over the years who didn't make that a priority.

Illinois' 16th District Congressman, Adam Kinzinger, took some time out of a busy morning, at the tail-end of a crazy week in Washington, to give the WROK Morning Show his thoughts on a new administration, and what changes we can expect to see in the near future.

Every Wednesday morning after the 8:30 news, I'm lucky enough to be joined by Northern Illinois University political science professor, Matt Streb, and for the last few months I've really been enjoying Matt's take on an increasingly bizarre presidential race.

The race for the Republican presidential nomination got a major kick in the headlines on Tuesday when Sarah Palin threw her support behind Donald Trump.

I've heard of low-turnout elections before, but this one takes the cake. An Iowa man who was the only candidate for a school board seat ended up with zero votes. That's right. According to the Des Moines Register, Randy Richardson couldn't even get himself to the voting booth to pull the lever for himself: Preliminary figures from Howard County say only 36 people voted in Tuesday's election, and n

Stateline area voters went to the polls this Election Day in record low numbers. Turnout in  Winnebago County was around 10 percent of registered voters.  Boone County had a voter turnout of 12 percent. The city of Rockord ended up with only six percent of voters casting a ballot...