Former central banker Mark Carney will become prime minister after the governing Liberal Party elected him its leader Sunday ...

Seven mostly Republican counties here voted last November to consider splitting off from their state, bringing to 33 the number that have voted to investigate leaving Illinois — almost a third of the ...

There was shockingly low voter turnout for the 2025 Cook County races, even though local government has a greater impact on citizens than federal.

Gov. JB Pritzker's campaign donated $15,000 in January to McNamara; Teague Dickey and his Iconic Energy company in Rockford ...

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

Elections in Rock Island are officially nonpartisan, but some aldermanic candidates have prior associations with a party. All ...

Megadonors from the right, Diane Hendricks and Richard Uihlein, and the left, George Soros and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, ...

Republicans threw a stink bomb into the chambers of the Democratic-controlled Illinois Supreme Court. Citing the Illinois Constitution’s requirement that legislative maps be “compact,” the GOP ...

Andrea Jamison, assistant professor of school librarianship at Illinois State University, has withdrawn her candidacy for the ...

Wisconsin election officials voted Friday to force Madison city workers to sit for depositions as they try to learn more about how nearly 200 absentee ballots ...