Let's Talk: Glenn Beck Addresses Tea Party in Illinois

Patch is liveblogging the Tea Party Convention in Illinois, featuring Glenn Beck as Saturday night's speaker. Care to chime in?

The Tea Party is hosting its Midwest convention in Schaumburg, which concludes today, Saturday, Oct. 1, with keynote speaker Glenn Beck. Patch is covering the event live as it unfolds. A full schedule can be found on Palatine Patch. Want to share information and debate with other folks in the south suburbs? Express yourself in the comments section.

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Patch Live Blogs the Tea Party Midwest Convention

Former Fox commentator Glenn Beck will headline the event, which will also host Republican Congressman Joe Walsh and Andrew Breitbart.

The Tea Party is hosting its Midwest convention in Schaumburg Friday, Sept. 30, and Saturday, Oct. 1. Patch will cover the event live as it unfolds. A full schedule can be found on Palatine Patch. Today we offer live coverage of the event and Andrew Breitbart's keynote speech at the kick-off reception.

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These People Want to Save the Nation, One Tea Party at a Time

Patch offers a look inside an Illinois Patriot Alliance Tinley-Orland-Palos Tea Party rally.

There was a time when Jim Fuentes wasn't sure whether the term "community activist" was a good thing. He still feels a need to qualify it when describing himself. "I call myself a public servant," he said. "I am a positive activist in the community." Otherwise, Fuentes has few verbal reservations. It takes a racecar to keep up. In June, the highly energized 57-year-old Tinley Park native – who produces a local television show and boasts of sleeping only five hours a night – founded the Illinois Patriot Alliance Tinley Orland Park (TOP) Tea Party. Across the nation, loosely affiliated groups like the TOP Tea Party have rallied under a banner claiming to be the moral heirs to the Boston Tea Party. Signifying a new wave of conservatism two …

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The Fact Check

The TOP Tea Party vs. The Boston Tea Party

The Tea Party Movement is bringing a new conservative wave from D.C. to T.P., but what do they have to do with the events of Dec. 16, 1773?

This week, The Fact Check is breaking down the statement of cause of the Illinois Patriot Alliance Tinley Orland Palos Tea Party. I know. Way to stay out of the limelight, right? I'm not going to debate the merits of what this local group preaches – this isn't "The Belief Check." But there are several statements or implications of fact mixed within the statements of creed. Like every statement intent on guiding public policy, whether it came from a conservative political movement or a Democratic legislator, The Fact Check not only questions it, but questions it hard. The modern-day "Tea Party" did take on burden beyond just what it says, however. The movement named itself after one of the most seminal, amazing and heroic moments in …

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Thomas C Kusunis

5:15 pm on Wednesday, September 7, 2011

I lived thru the great depression and remember how Franklin Daleno Roosevelt (FDR) was pulling us out of it. FDR's methods were "you must work for your handout". Their was the WPA, the CCC and other earn your government unemployement check. This was FDR's way of updating our infrastructure and municpal works while at the same time infusing personal pride to the recipients of government money. In …   more ›