lathrop began her work in the 1880s in chicago, alongside another former ro rockford residence. between 1880 and 1914, let us remember, an average of 1 million new immigrants arrived each year. relative to existing population, this migratory flow occurred at nearly three times the current rate. majorities of these newcomers neither spoke english nor practiced the protestant faith. many observers worried about the rise of hyphenated cultures such as german-american, or ta italian-american that these threatened the culture and communities. lathrop on cluded that the immigration problem was in fact a problem of homes. americanization meaning assimilation and unity, could best be secured by focusing on a common motherhood using images of marriage, of children and home to represent the american way of life. along with fellow activists such as florence kelly, grace abbott, mary anderson, josephine baker and frances keller, lathrop form add world view sometimes called social feminism, better labeled, maternalism. it offered a new way of citizenship built on one motherhood from diversel

. >>> first, let's take a look at rockford, illinois, in this diner, soon to make a scheduled appearancehere, candidate mitt romney. he's stumping there, two days ahead of the illinois primary. >>> here to weigh in on romney's biggest challenges ahead, republican strategist ron bonjean and nia malikia henderson with "the washington post" back with us. nia, you first. romney's biggest challenge, is it coming from santorum or gingrich or himself? >> you know, it is all three. i think in a lot of ways it is romney himself over these last couple of weeks. they never planned on this primary going on and on and on. here is a candidate with a lot of money, a lot of infrastructure, a sleek campaign operation they have there. but in his fundamental argument, he's an economic heavyweight and he's inevitable and he's the likely nominee and the most electable against barack obama, but guess what, he's run up against rick santorum and i think he's starting -- republicans are starting to feel like here is a guy whose argument is that he can beat barack obama but he's having problems putting away rick

. >> rick santorum hosted rallies and dixon and rockford. >> this could be an amazing time in historyillinois, you can assure that in and surprise the pundits. >> he supported the wall street bailout. >> the romney camp has a new video out highlighting santorum's support for romney in 2008. >> if you want a conservative as the nominee of this party, you must vote for mitt romney. >> polls give romney the edge but put santorum within striking distance. >> a mitt romney win here will continue his march to the nomination. a lot will say rick santorum has some support here in the midwest and has won a big victory and is not just winning in the evangelical stops. >> newt gingrich's focus on the upcoming louisiana primary. he adds ron paul took today off the campaign trail. 54 delegates will be directly elected in tomorrow's illinois primary. another 15 will be named at the state party convention in june. >> mitt romney will be in maryland later this week ahead of the april 3 primary. details are still being ironed out. we are told the of and will likely be held in rbs. -- in arbutus. detai

won porter rico's primary today and she is looking for another win in illinois so he had moline, rockford and vernon hills, crisscrossing the state planning president obama as energy policy for high gas prices and romney telling supporters that he is the only one in the race who can turn around the economy. mitt romney and his wife and pumping up and overflow crowd first before heading inside a packed and stevie gymnasium for a town hall meeting at a community center in vernon hills the former massachusetts gov. takes to the economy. ronni supporters were out in full force. the gop candidates hoping to pick up another win, in illinois on tuesday after winning the primary and porter rico today. i intend to get latino voters to vote republican in take back the white house. >> stop using immigration as a political weapon. >> santorum had the national media circuit sunday. >> he was not campaigning in illinois today but he got some celebrity help, but the doggers with the the reality show 19 kids in accounting making stops at two chicago churches. >> rick santorum is somebody who has a proven

republican candidates including mitt romney, who took a jab at president obama while speaking in rockford, illinois last weekend. >> you know his views on health care, his view is the heavy hand of the government can do better than you can in picking your type of insurance, the kind of coverage you'll have. the kind of procedures you will be entitled to will be decided by government under his plan. if i'm the next president on day one i will stop obamacare in its tracks and get it repealed. >> look closer and you will see people oppose the law for different reasons. 37% say it's too liberal. 14% say it's not liberal enough. recent polls show most people don't know what the law does. why don't we give you a quick reminder. in effect, health plans must provide certain services such as mammograms and no copayments. children without private insurance can stay on their parents plan until they turn 26. to date, 2.5 million have gotten insurance through the provision. the law is closing the donut hole. there is bigger changes that are in store for 2014. insurers can't deny coverage to anyone eve

. >> mitt romney hung out to dry in rockford after he proposed that the group, the group serenade a luckyy birthday." romney was left by the group with a solo performance. >> whose birthday? happy birthday. shall we sing that? what's her name? >> it's kathy. ♪ happy birthday to you. happy birthday to you. happy birthday dear kathy happy birthday to you ♪ thanks, kathy. thank you. >> that wasn't that bad. that's kind of like a t.g.i. friday's when they sing and you just want the waiter to go away. >>> your well intentioned tweets are next on "morning joe." just moments away. my mother froze everything. i was 18 years old before i had my first fresh bun. the invention that i came up with is the hot dog ez bun steamer. steam is the key to a great hot dog. i knew it was going to be a success. the invention was so simple that i knew i needed to protect it. my name is chris schutte and i got my patent, trademark and llc on legalzoom. [ shapiro ] we created legalzoom to help people start their business and launch their dreams. go to legalzoom today and make your business dream a reality. at lega

. >> mitt romney held a meet and greet sunday in rockford, and illinois. the former massachusetts governor is campaigning to drop the state where 69 total delegates are up for grabs. >> we are so delighted to be here. it should be stalling and cold. that might happen again. mitt and i have had the opportunity to go across the country. it has been a blessing to see all of the wonderful people. we love meeting you folks and having the chance to see what america is really about. i wish everyone could have the opportunity to see the goodness of the american people. the heartland, the goodness of america is still strong. we need to win. [applause] i told mitt four years ago that i would never do this again. here we are. we had better get this done this time. i laughed because i say this after every pregnancy. i am the mother of five boys. we have been blessed with a wonderful family and a wonderful country with wonderful parents. so i am so grateful to my mom and dad and grandparents. for mitt's parents too. my father is an immigrant. he came from whales at the

peoria, rockford. this event in dixon, illinois, with the shadow of a ronald reagan statue behind him. >> remember, when ronald reagan took the helm back in 1980 he had fought some battles. he'd been fighting battles for a couple of decades to revive conservatism in this country. he fought and insurgent campaign against no less a sitting incumbent republican. now, we don't have a sitting republican incumbent running for office this time. but we have someone that is certainly the -- the choice of the establishment republican. someone whose turn it was. we see that so often in republican politics for president. it's almost -- almost inevitable whose ever the next in line, that's who the republicans tend to put forward. and ronald reagan said, no, we don't need the next in line. we need something very different. what's going on and was going on in 1976 and, of course, even worse in 1980 was something that was corrosive of the american spirit. we were in a time in the '60s and the '70s that we stopped beli

southern part of the sit making his way to the northern part of the state campaigning in tee yore ra, rockford and dickson, the boyhood home of president ronald reagan. the headline from the "chicago tribune" is candidates making final push with illinois now in the spotlight. and the santorum campaign out with a new national ad taking aim at mitt romney's record. >> okay. a liberal, a moderate and a conservative walk into a bar. and the bartender says, hello, mitt. funny, but true. you see mitt romney doesn't seem to have any core values. just says what he thinks people want to hear like telling liberals in massachusetts he's pro-choice and always will be. then telling conservatives he's pro-life. now romney's latest pandering after telling us he supports making english our official language seems old mitt got caught in puerto rico telling voters there he opposes them having to learn english to become a u.s. state. rick santorum he stuck to his convictions and told them you want to become a state, start teaching english in your schools. where does romney stand on the issues? it all depends on

romney campaigned across the state, shaking hands in rockford and today in chicago talking in an online chat about the rigors of campaign life. >> i had to wash my shirt out in the sink and then i thought how am i going to get this thing dried fast enough? >> reporter: he even went straight at president obama in his backyard-- the university of chicago. >> for the last three years the president has expanded government instead of empowering the american people. >> reporter: now, romney was on his game here in illinois, he sounded confident on the campaign trail, he hit the president and santorum as he went all out, scott, to win a big share of the state's 54 delegates in play here tonight. >> pelley: jan, thank you. rick santorum is already looking ahead to the primary next month in his home state of pennsylvania. dean reynolds is covering his campaign in gettysburg. dean? >> reporter: scott, senator santorum chose to be here in pennsylvania tonight rather than in illinois where he knows he's running second and where he told us he faces a familiar problem. >> we've got people, we've got

can win say more conservative >> clubs are off 16th district stretching wisconsin to portions of rockfordo morris and pontiac east of indiana adam kinzinger state line combat missions iraq force pilot hopes to stay in congress trumping district man who holds the seat don manzullo agricultural lawyer and former business owner not ready to get it up and a result attack advertisements >> biggest pressure spender tax dollars promoting himself national journal adam kinzinger record not much different than the democrat he replaced >> increased spending 60% under bush >> purpose of this start supply chain 5000 workers in this district plan had the tens of thousands of others involved automotive >> not something neither of us want to go through republican vs. republican >> could have taken on jesse jackson he chose to run against me down the voters decide in 10 days >> sunday marked the one-year anniversary devastating earthquake in japan red cross accusing government of wasting time when you're later won a quarter million people still living in shelters red cross says stay there another five yea

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by tomorrow night at this time showers and thunderstorms towards rockford.storm sent big warm air and southern wind roaring into our area. jet stream level wind blowing in the same direction the wind field forecast for tomorrow. the same atmospheric set up in place today in place tomorrow powerful wind taking warm air from the south blended into our area chance to cool off. scattered clouds mild tonight nighttime temperature 20 degrees above normal. crop and 45 degrees south wind up 18-36 degrees.miles per hour. clouding overs showers for a spell. sun comes up over most of the area thursday modestly cooler 54 degrees at 46 degrees on friday back to 50's-near '60s seven day forecast that is great about mild week ahead next week also >> breaking news lake county in the at tonight for correction officers hit by truck lead in what officer dead. the group was jogging crown point indiana looking for dark colored suv only description we have the three other officers survived taken to hospitals no word on how they are doing latest numbers next >> and big party to ce

reporter: instead, the romneys spent their sunday campaigning across illinois, shaking hands in rockford and slipping pancakes in moline and all the while keeping up the attack on main rival rick santorum. >> senator santorum has the same economic lightweight background the president has. it's time to put in place an economic heavyweight and i am and i'll get that job done. >> reporter: make the rounds on sunday, santorum fought back. >> if mitt romney is a heavy weight we are in trouble. >> reporter: romney argues he is the only candidate who can get enough delegates to win the nomination and also that is he the best candidate to challenge obama in fund-raising. >> we have to have a nominee who has the capacity to -- and the organization necessary to raise money to be competitive. >> reporter: his argument so far have failed to seal the deal. the republican national committee is dealing how to deal with a brokered convention and contested dealts betwe dell geg the four presidential candidates. saying it didn't slow down barack obama despite bruising fight with hillary clinton in the 200

. >> i love the boxing terms, but here is rick santorum defending himself yesterday in rockford, illinois, let's listen to his defense against the lightweight charge. >> i heard that romney called me than economic lightweight because i was not a wall street financier like he was. you really believe this country wants to elect a wall street financer. you think that's the experience we need in someone that will take and look after as he did his friends on wall street and bail them out at the expense of main street america. >> maybe everyone here is getting punchy here, but he also said just recently this afternoon, just a few minutes ago, that the unemployment rate doesn't matter in his campaign. he's not watching it very closely. but everyone knows it will probably end up about the unemployment rate, why would he say such a thing. >> it is interesting to mark's point, neither candidate has a positive message at this point. you heard romney in your earlier bite after santorum says romney is too much like obama on a lot of issues, he is too liberal. you have romney returning to his experienc

the former massachusetts governor will make remarks and speak with voters tat machine shed rockford at about 5:00 eastern this afternoon. you can watch live coverage right here on c-span. coming up on c-span in a moment, "washington journal" with a look at the top stories, guests, and your calls. at 10:00 eastern it's "newsmakers." this week's guest, attorney general ken cuccinelli. then at 10:30 actor and activist george clooney's testimony about the humanitarian crisis in southern sudan. here's a look at guests coming up on "washington journal." at 7:45, susan if a rich yo and npr's ken ruden join us to talk about the republican presidential race and president obama's campaign documentary released this last week. then overseas for the latest developments on the war on afghanistan. at 9:15

rockford against cans in europe. we will see you tomorrow. thank you. . > opening at six tomorrow morning, we wanted to make sure everyone was clear on what is and isn't allowed in the voting booth. we spoke with cook county clerk david orr at five o'clock for the definitive answer on that electronic device rule that was and then wasn't. the long ballot is ok if you take in cheat sheets or applications or whatever. you may not remember who the judges are. it is ok to take that in there and vote. we just do not what you filming will you vote. mr. orr also explained how it's possible for republican presidential delegates to actually win the popular vote, but not win the delegate count. the democratic primary race for a west side state senate seat is a contentious one. the candidates faced off in a debate on cltv's politics tonight. incumbent sen. annazette collins faces a challenge from former mayoral candidate doctor patricia van pelt watkins, in the remapped 5th district covering the west loop, bucktown, wicker park, east garfield and north l

. >>> in rockford ohio police are investigating a bizarre accident that has an entire neighborhood buzzingast night. >> police say the driver of this truck of the speeding down the road, missed the turn, hit the curb, went airborne, hit the front porch of a house, landed on a car and came to rest inside somebody else's home. the woman living inside that particular home, it was a close call. >> i had just gotten home from work and went upstairs and the house just started to shake and the power started to flicker and i ran downstairs and i ran out the front door and looked over and saw the truck on my front porch. >> well, now this when it really gets weird. after the driver crashed, he got out of truck, stripped naked and started chasing somebody, a woman, around the neighborhood. an ex-marine who lives there was able to restrain him until officers arrived. nobody was hurt. the driver taken into custody. >>> still ahead barbie gets a new look to help sick kids. we talked about this before. >> up next a popular local museum is becoming its own exhibit. we'll explain. >>> screen on the green

rockford your is your snowbomb.com ski report. >> i was into dirty jokes when i started, everyone wanted pryor. when i got to hollywood, i'm not necessarily clean, but i am not dirty. i'm not clean, i was kicked out of the military, i got through a lot of things to get to this point. >>gary: how did she get the names and that? how do you tell your parents and your name is sinbad? >> i watched sinbad movies when i was growing up. >>gary: who do you like now? >> i like kevin hart. fifth i am looking for that new guy that will take all of our faces. >> i shaved my head because i knew my hair was leading the. car >>gary: you are a good- looking man if you do not mind me saying so. >> i used to be a male model. >>gary: how long ago? >> yesterday. sinbad >> >> thank god for salon. there are a lot of bugs that were not there before. >>gary: you are in oakland to my question >>mark: yes. >> i am in santa cruz on saturday. the national association of like suburbs, we gather every march. it is about 3000-4000 blacks are first. jeff: i got carbon monoxide poisoning in the marathon running behind th

moline and rockford, we've had a great day in illinois. >> illinois is a great state. battle you are having with david axelrod on twitter. >> well, you know, we've seen in these past elections that money just doesn't buy elections. if it did, mitt romney would have void -- sewed up the nomination a long time ago. we have the energy and enthusiasm on our side. david axelrod is entitled to his opinion but ten times he's been wrong. we won >> if we are efficient enough to have a huge upset here in illinois. i know it would be an upset. they said we couldn't do it there and we did. week in mississippi, that we couldn't do it there, and we did. >> there's a video posted today, a governor mitt romney video from 2008 and you are standing there endorsing him saying no one puts words in my mouth. if you want a conservative, you must vote for mitt romney. now four years later you are saying he's not a conservative. how do you get around this video. >> later mitt romney thanked me for the endorsement and calls me the true conservative and someone strong and principalled on econom

but in rockford, santorum shot back that romney's own economic credentials leave a lot to be desired. heard governor romney here call me an economic lightweight. because i wasn't a wall street financier like he was. do you really believe this country wants to elect a wall street financier as the president of the united states? do you think that's the kind of experience we need? >> sreenivasan: polls had romney leading in illinois, where 54 delegates will be at stake. he won the puerto rico primary yesterday, taking all 20 of the territory's delegates. romney now has more than twice the number of delegates as santorum. the world's most valuable company, apple, has announced it will pay out dividends. the tech giant has nearly $100 billion in cash on hand. it said today it will use part of that sum for a dividend of roughly $10 per share, over one year. apple shares hit an all-time high of $600 apiece last week. they closed above that level today for the first time. the news from apple helped wall street stave off a losing day. the dow jones industrial average gained six points to close

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he is saying that he is the best chance for the presidency in rockford, illinois. hear from iraq santorum. he has vowed to continue to go for the long haul. he is calling tomorrow's illinois primary. one of the wives it says that it is time for the rifles to quit the race. >>darya: we are looking at a van ness it looks like the flag is not even up. it has however been breezy. it feels cooler. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ hit the road, jack ♪ and don't you come back no more ♪ ♪ no more, no more, no more ♪ hit the road, jack ♪ and don't you come back no more ♪ [ male announcer ] want your weeds to hit the road? hit 'em with roundup extended control. one application kills weeds and puts down a barrier to stop new ones for up to four months. roundup extended control spray once. stop weeds for months. roundup extended control yes. yes. noooo! [ male announcer ] yep, subway broke the 200-calorie breakfast barrier. with delicious fresh fit mornin' melt breakfast sandwiches. subway. eat fresh. >>george: the 101 assault pond has a multi-people accident in the center divide. t

reporter: instead, the romneys spent their day campaigning across illinois, headaching hands in rockford and flipping pancakes in moline, while keeping up the attack on main rival, rick santorum. >> senator santorum has the same economic lightweight background the president has. >> reporter: making the rounds on the sunday shows, santorum fired back. >> if mitt romney is an economic heavyweight, we're in trouble. because he was 47th out of 50 in job creation in the state of massachusetts when he was governor. >> reporter: romney argues he's the only candidate to get enough delegates to get the nomination and he's also the best candidate to challenge obama in fund-raising. >> we need a nominee who has the organization and capacity to raise money to be competitive. >> reporter: his arguments have failed to seal the deal. the republican national committee is preparing for how to deal with a brokered convention and contested delegates between the four republican candidates. but the chairman of the republican national committee said the excitement of the primaries will be good for the party.

you look at the housing market through the eyes of jim rockford from "the rockford files" and the correlationoking rate and their debt-to-gdp levels. takes you to what country? >> unfortunately greece. >> greece. >> really. >> greece has a 40% smoking rate. 40% of all the people over 15 smoke. it is an outlier on the upside. the average is around 20. u.s. is around 16%. what i try to do as indicators is reconnect this to something economic and relevant because one of the more insidious problems of the financial crisis has been we don't trust economic numbers as much as we used to. we question birth/death rates, seasonality. what i try to do is reconnect this to something we can all trust and believe in. >> you also say the correlation is not causation, right? >> that is absolutely right. it struck me as odd that greece had this deviation outlier smoking penetration rate in the population and it led me down the pathway of thinking perhaps as much as a taxation policy as any kind of social norm. >> leads to some policy suggestions about how to lower smoking levels in some of these countries but

mitt romney hitting the ground at rockford, illinois meeting supporters ahead of the tuesday's race.nd rick santorum going head to head to win over conservative voters. doug mckelway is following the action and is live from washington. >>> good evening, a bit of wildcard in trying to figure out the delegate mass in illinois. popular perception is i will is marked by suburban areas of officially moderate and secure republicans financially secure republicans who tend to gravitate toward mitt romney. illinois also has a lot of rural areas and borders iowa and missouri, two states where santorum has done well. recent polling reflects the race has been tightening despite romney has outspent santorum 7 to 1. romney is up 6.4%. both gingrich and paul lagging far behind. on the sunday talk show circuit, both candidates were talking about the mathematical possibilities of reaching the threshold of 1144 delegates that it will take to win the nomination. >> i think the people of our party want to make sure we have a nominee that can beat barack obama. i know a lot of people will talk about dele