State Rep. Sam Yingling (D-Grayslake) pays less in property taxes on his 3,460-square-foot Highland Lake home than he did six years ago, a review of records at the Lake County assessors office shows.

First-term state Rep. Nick Sauer (R-Lake Barrington) has resigned his House seat in light of a news report that he posted nude photos of an ex-girlfriend on a fake Instagram account as a ploy to lure men into online conversations.

Barrett Davie, Republican challenger to state Sen. Julie Morrison (D-Deerfield), said voters should believe her candid, if inadvertent, spirited defense of higher property taxes before the Lake Forest City Council.

Sen. Julie Morrison (D-Deerfield) is drifting away from a campaign pledge to freeze property taxes.

Joe Woodward, political director for the Illinois House Republican Organization (HRO), evidently learned a campaign trick or two when he worked for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential primary campaign.

State Sen. Terry Link (D-Waukegan) says a Lake County GOP fundraiser that included a gun raffle was insensitive, in light of the Las Vegas concert massacre two weeks earlier.