Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba 's ruling coalition failed Monday to secure a majority in the 248-seat upper house in a crucial parliamentary election, NHK public television said.

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The Cook County Democratic Party, one of the most powerful political organizations in the state, chose to back Rep. Margaret ...

Cook County Democratic slatemakers also endorsed state Rep. Margaret Croke of Chicago for state comptroller spot being ...

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For stumping political candidates, vowing to build affordable housing remains one of their biggest rallying cries.

CHICAGO ( WGN) — Democrats vying for retiring Sen. Dick Durbin’s Senate seat made their pitch to Cook County Democratic leaders on Friday, as the party also backed a new candidate for state ...

Muskegon residents will have the opportunity to vote for two open city commissioner seats during the Aug. 5 primary election.

At a union hall on Chicago’s South Side, a powerful Democratic Party organization decided who to endorse in the March 17 ...

Major shakeups are coming to Illinois politics in the next two years. Behind closed doors, Cook County Democrats Friday voted ...

With major future cuts to social service programs now written into law, Democrats seeking Illinois’ open U.S. Senate seat in ...