In the wake of their sweeping election defeat, it didn’t take long for Democrats to turn on one another, seeking explanations ...

Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week. Along with roll call votes this week, the House ...

Vote by vote, the local control plan is working. Earlier this year, lawmakers voted to stop collecting the 1% tax on grocery ...

Past and present Illinois politicians have figured prominently in wiretapped conversations introduced by prosecutors at the ...

What you’ve seen is that you have many fewer competitive seats in the country because the way in which redistricting is ...

Nearly two dozen Democrats are seen as possible contenders ahead of an invisible primary that will be shaped partly by Trump ...

An effort is underway in the Illinois legislature to protect water supplies from a new climate technology that still faces ...

Voters in the metro-east county made it the 33rd to approve the symbolic measure to form a new state without Cook County.

The last Republican presidential candidate to win in Illinois was George H.W. Bush ... Ballot measures: Advisory Question 1 (civil penalties for election worker interference), Advisory Question ...

The Cook County assessor's move was prompted by a Sun-Times investigation that found the owner of a Winnetka mansion is ...

Voting for Donald Trump does not make me racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic or any other “-ist” and “-ic” I’ve been ...

Amid concerns about the next presidential administration’s lack of support for abortion rights, Democratic Cook County ...