The battle for Illinois' 17th District U.S. Congressional seat will be between incumbent Democrat Eric Sorensen and ...

Jesse Jackson Jr. has the juice for a political comeback. He could upset the pecking orders of Chicago’s Black political ...

In a letter to the public, the Republicans argued that while they might “disagree with Kamala Harris” on many issues, Trump ...

Chapter 5 of a nine-part series about how Champaign County came to be, from former Champaign mayor and resident historian ...

Tyrone C. Fahner, a Republican who headed a Chicago law firm and was a leader in civic affairs after a legal career that ...

The U.S. House of Representatives’ bipartisan task force on the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump has obtained a trove of key medical records for the shooter.

The Senate will vote for the second time this year on legislation to establish a nationwide right for in vitro fertilization.

Building on an issue from the campaign trail, Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) is the latest member of Congress to propose a bill eliminating taxes on tips.

The return of 14 Republican presidential electors linked to efforts to reverse Donald Trump’s 2020 loss raises questions about what they will do if Trump loses again in their states.

The first Black woman elected to the Senate, Democratic Sen. Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois in 1992, served a single term.

ATS.io compiled and ranked the five biggest poll-defying U.S. presidential election upsets since 1872 using data from Sports ...

A group of state legislators, local politicians and nonprofits on Tuesday launched a national coalition that hopes to ...