Congressional leaders are determined to slash hundreds of billions of dollars in conservation funding for farmers and if the ...

Though municipal and school board races in Illinois are nonpartisan, voters may see many of the same political themes that were hallmarks of races during the 2024 presidential election cycle.

Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole ...

House Democrats‘ campaign arm is prioritizing investments in Latino-heavy districts for the 2026 midterm cycle after President Donald Trump made significant inroads with Hispanic voters last year. The ...

House Speaker Todd Huston, R-Fishers, appears to be entirely serious about his idea for Indiana to negotiate with Illinois about the Hoosier State absorbing up to 33 Illinois counties whose voters ...

The reaction to President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday night is pouring in, including from politicians in Illinois.

President Donald Trump will deliver an address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, laying out the agenda for his ...

How do we know the House’s pro-Republican skew has disappeared? One common measure of bias, the efficiency gap, compares the parties’ respective shares of “wasted” votes: those cast either for losing ...

When you think about states with high taxes, Illinois may not immediately come to mind. However, the Prairie State has one of the highest sales tax rates in the U.S., some of the highest property ...

Civilian federal jobs are being cut by the thousands, as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency continues to shrink ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Gov. JB Pritzker and Democratic members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation are demanding answers from the federal government Wednesday. It centers on nearly $2 billion in ...