Bill Foster In The News
November 20, 2008 Anita Dunn won't join White House
In March 2008, Bill Foster shocked the political world with a special election win in former Speaker Dennis Hastert's seat (IL-14). ...
November 19, 2008 Higher Education Briefs
The public event, scheduled for 5:30-7:30 pm Thursday in the Colvard Student Union's Bill Foster Ballroom, will include an awards and recognition ceremony. ...
November 19, 2008 Oswego mayor takes 2 wishes to DC
LeClercq plans on meeting with Rep. Bill Foster and Sen. Dick Durbin over the next couple days to discuss Oswego's infrastructure needs with the hope of ...
November 19, 2008 Red Cross kicks off Hometown Heroes campaign
Kane County Sheriff Pat Perez and Congressman Bill Foster will speak at the awards ceremony. A former Hometown Hero himself, Perez will talk about how his ...
November 18, 2008 Group Suggests Immigrants Were Forced to Vote Democrat in Election
US Rep. Bill Foster (D-Geneva) was elected and re-elected to a seat long in Republican hands. In both elections, he faced anti-immigrant Republican Jim ...
November 17, 2008 How to say you're candidate â or not
Of course, he then made a short-lived bid for the 14th District seat now held by Rep. Bill Foster. Yeah, yeah, everyone forms a committee -- State Sen. ...
November 14, 2008 Briefs: Fall meeting for 8th Ward Committee
US Rep. Bill Foster announced that the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation awarded the FITE Center for Independent Living a $15000 Quality of Life grant. ...
November 13, 2008 Author Robert Renteria To Deliver Keynote at the Illinois ...
US Congressman Bill Foster, Aurora Mayor Thomas Weisner, Princeton University Professor Russ Nieli, and Chicago police officers are just a few of the many ...
November 13, 2008 Obama tickets hard to find ...
Do I have any chance of getting one? You do, but consider this: Rep. Bill Foster's office has received "many hundreds" of requests since Election Day. ...
November 12, 2008 Red Cross kicks off Hometown Heroes drive
In keeping with this year's theme, Kane County Sheriff Pat Perez and US Rep. Bill Foster , D-Geneva, will speak at the awards ceremony. ...
November 12, 2008 GOP must tone down rhetoric to woo Latinos
The seat vacated last year by former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) is now occupied by Democrat Bill Foster. In Pennsylvania, Democratic Rep. ...
November 12, 2008 Beltway Roundup: Obama's election has immediate impact on Illinois
Mild-mannered Rep. Bill Foster, D-Geneva, won the right to a full-two year term in the 14th Congressional District, after winning the special election ...
November 11, 2008 Politicians, citizens remember veterans in Illinois
Congressman Bill Foster plans to attend a Veteran's Day parade and ceremony in Aurora before heading to a memorial in Elgin. And at the Erickson Retirement ...
November 11, 2008 Salutes To Veterans Across Chicago Area
US Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.) is among those scheduled to attend. At 11 am, the town of Cicero dedicates its new war memorial at the New Cicero Municipal ...
November 10, 2008 Updated 11/10: Democrats see some success in GOP DuPage
While there were occasional bright spots for the Democrats outside County Board races, such as Bill Foster's win over Jim Oberweis in the 14th Congressional ...
November 09, 2008 On the way up: Barack Obama, from those who knew him when
By ANDRE SALLES asalles@scn1.com US Rep. Bill Foster has only met Barack Obama a handful of times. The Fox Valley congressman said he's spent a grand total ...
November 09, 2008 Has Illinois got it made?
His successor is Bill Foster, the first Democrat elected to serve the 14th District since Watergate. When he was first elected in March, ...
November 08, 2008 Election spenders, election winners
The most expensive US House race was in the 14th district, where incumbent Democrat Bill Foster and Republican James Oberweis raised a combined $9.7 million ...
November 07, 2008 67% of Henry County voters cast ballots
In the 14th Congressional District, Democrat Bill Foster received 57 percent of the state vote compared to the 43 percent his Republican opponent Jim ...
November 06, 2008 Campaign & Election News - Covering Key Races Around the Country
I was very receptive to his appeal for more scientists in Congress, and while we just got one more recently (Bill Foster), there's no question that we need ...
November 06, 2008 Gov will have to call special election for Emanuel seat
But turnout was only about 20 percent of the registered voters, who elected Democrat Bill Foster over Republican Jim Oberweis. Foster won a rematch against ...
November 06, 2008 Big Night for Obama Also Brings Changes for Science
... eighth and sixth terms, respectively, while Representative Bill Foster (DâIL) parlayed a victory in a March special election (Science, 14 March, p. ...
November 06, 2008 Gov will have to call special election for Emanuel seat
...to see if it would help voter turnout. But turnout was only about 20 percent of the registered voters, who elected Democrat Bill Foster over Republican Jim Oberweis. Foster won a rematch against Oberweis on Tuesday. Even Wednesday, a long line of Democr
Source: Chicago Tribune
November 06, 2008 That Whole Latino Vote Thing : A look at the Numeros
...common sense approaches for fixing our nation's broken immigration system like Dina Titus (taking Rep. Porter's seat in NV-3), Bill Foster (IL-14), Jim Himes (taking Rep. Shays' seat in CT-4), Rep. Giffords (AZ-8), and many others. In the Senate, new pr
Source: Vivir Latino
November 06, 2008 Democrats make small statewide gains with already strong hand
...Aaron Schock won retiring U.S. Rep. LaHood's 18th Congressional District seat. In Northern Illinois, Democrat Bill Foster won re-election. He had won former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert's seat in a special election earlier this year after Hastert r
Source: Herald & Review
November 06, 2008 Democrats Gain in Michigan and Ohio
...up the seat once held by former Speaker Dennis Hastert (R), whose retirement in March paved the way for the victory of now-Rep. Bill Foster (D) over dairy magnate Jim Oberweis (R). The general election rematch between the two candidates proved less exci
November 05, 2008 Illinois Democrats pick up 1 GOP seat in Congress
Democratic Rep. Bill Foster will keep the formerly GOP seat he won earlier this year in a special election after again beating Republican businessman Jim ...
November 05, 2008 Democrats Bolster Their House Majority, But by Less Than Expected
But Illinois Democratic Rep. Bill Foster won a full term in the suburban Chicago district of former Republican Speaker J. Dennis Hastert , who resigned last ...
November 05, 2008 Voters come out for historic election
In the stateâs 90th Representative District Jerry Mitchell was re-elected. Mitchell (R) received 10473 votes in Lee County, while Kenneth Novak (D) earned ...
November 05, 2008 Open seats, rematches in Ill. congressional races
Republican US Rep. Judy Biggert won her 6th term by defeating Democrat Scott Harper and the Green's Steve Alesch. Democratic US Rep. Bill Foster won his 1st ...
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