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With the special election for Dennis Hastert's vacant 14th Congessional District seat coming up next Saturday, the race has heated up. Democrat Bill Foster has hit Jim Oberweis almost daily, pointing out the differences on Social Security, global trade, and the war in Iraq. Oberweis has fought back, calling Foster a liberal and a liar, and charging that he will raise taxes. The close race got even more interesting this week when Foster released recent internal polling indicating that he leads Oberweis in the race. Now Foster is claiming that Oberweis violated the so-called "Millinoare's Law", by failing to disclose that he was about to dump buckets of his own cash into the race.

Another incredibly sad story about the tragic death of Chicago children surfaced yesterday. Sandra and Isaac Younan, 4 and 2, were found dead in a bathtub in their home on the Northwest Side Monday after firefighters extinguished a suspicious kitchen fire. Police are investigating their deaths; their mother, Abby, is in police custody although she has not been charged. Investigators called the fire "minor" and the Sun-Times reported that "Investigators found cans of aerosol spray, and it appeared the cans were put into the microwave oven and then the oven was turned on." The children's deaths were unrelated to the fire.