* 1:57 pm - One gun a month comes up short….
An effort to bar Illinois residents from buying more than one handgun a month has failed.
The measure got only 53 of the 60 votes it needed to pass the Illinois House, but the sponsor could bring it back for another vote later.
Democratic Representative Luis Arroyo calls his bill a reasonable response to gun violence in Chicago.
* 2:00 pm - The woman who called tree-climbing kids monkeys is not stepping down…
A suburban Chicago delegate backing Sen. Barack Obama is now expected to keep her spot at this summer’s Democratic National Convention, reversing an outcome the Illinois Democrat’s campaign had reported a day earlier.
“Ms. Ramirez-Sliwinski is an elected delegate and we respect her decision to represent the campaign at the convention,” Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said in a statement.
On Tuesday, LaBolt had said the trustee in suburban Carpentersville had decided to step down after she used the word “monkeys” to describe two African American children.
“It is clear that the incident was a misunderstanding,” LaBolt said.
As an elected delegate, Ramirez-Sliwinski’s decision is her own. Obama’s campaign had been told on Monday that she planned to step down.