Obama's message of compromise might not have much impact on deadlocked Springfield by WBEZ published on 2016-02-10T23:44:46Z President Barack Obama returned to his Illinois political roots Wednesday. He addressed Illinois state lawmakers in Springfield in a roughly hour-long speech. Much of the president’s address touched on the hope of Republicans and Democrats working together for bipartisan solutions. But it comes as there’s much political gridlock in both Washington - and Springfield. WBEZ’s Illinois state politics reporter Tony Arnold joined host Melba Lara from the state capitol. Genre President Barack Obama
