A new General Assembly was sworn in for the next two years on Wednesday, with the House and Senate ceremonies taking two starkly different tones.

Voters in Lemont Township are taking up the pension crisis, gerrymandering and unfunded mandates. The township voted to put ...

When Jimmy Carter carried Wisconsin in 1976, the 15 most Democratic counties did not include Milwaukee or Dane.

Smack in the middle of the Trump presidency, he worked as a reporter for the Herald & Review, a newspaper in Macon County, Illinois ... the Nov. 5 presidential election, Parsons again recited ...

AP calls Illinois House District 13 for Nikki Budzinski. Nov 6 • 4:53 AM ET AP calls Illinois House District 17 for Eric Sorensen. Nov 5 • 10:59 PM ET AP calls Illinois House District 6 for ...

Jimmy Carter, whose official state funeral will be held Thursday in Washington, D.C., was introduced to Chicago at a South ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — As 2024 comes to an end this week, WAND News is looking back at the top political stories of the year. Illinois lawmakers addressed a wide variety of issues from union ...

Earlier this month, 11 elected officials were sworn into DuPage County offices ... Mouritsen said. Favorable political districts for Illinois Democrats starting in 2010 gave way to Democratic ...

The Illinois House of Representatives meets inside the Capitol in Springfield on May 22. Mitchell Armentrout/Sun-Times Share The 2024 national election ... Representatives map to guarantee that ...

Heading into Election Day, Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump were locked in a tight race for the White House, and control of both the U.S. Senate and House was hanging in the balance.

Nov 6 • 11:23 AM ET AP calls Illinois District 13 for Nikki Budzinski ... track and analyze the House of Representatives election. See the top house races happening right now and which ...