The Illinois State Board of Elections will decide next week whether it should follow a hearing officer’s recommendation and ...

See how candidates for Congress are doing in raising campaign cash in the four most-competitive districts in Illinois.

— APPOINTED: Margaret DeLaRosa has been appointed state representative in the 42nd District, filling the seat held by Terra ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has held discussions with Maryland and Illinois Democrats about new maps as he vows to ...

Stacy Davis Gates unanimously won election Saturday to be the next president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers.

The powerful and divisive leader will remain as head of the Chicago Teachers Union after she was chosen Saturday to lead the ...

Officials in President Trump’s Justice Department have been scrutinizing crime data in recent months — they’ve found evidence ...

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin is not running for re-election. So far, it’s a crowded field of candidates lining up to succeed him ...

JB Pritzker has been clashing with Donald Trump for years, but the acrimony reached new heights with the president’s recent ...

New Illinois’ mission statement describes the state as facing “a financial crisis brought on by corruption,” with politicians “unwilling or unable (by virtue of the Pension Protection Clause of the ...

A few weeks ago during a visit to Springfield, Jeffries acknowledged the push to get more seats in some states, including Illinois. President Donald Trump wants to “rig the midterms," he told POLITICO ...

As veto session begins and power goes back to the Democratic majority state legislature, the consequences of a single-party ...