TV advertising has already begun in Illinois’$2 2026 Democrat primary for U.S. Senate, and new fundraising numbers released ...

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

Today, the Tribune Editorial Board is continuing our endorsements in contested Illinois House races. This is the second of our four installments. This is a rematch of a race won easily in 2022 by ...

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

A decades-old rule prohibited politicking from the pulpit. Without it, some worry churches could become “linchpins to sway ...

Sen. Dick Durbin's retirement announcement earlier this year set off a tsunami that is still shaking up the political world ...

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Churches and other houses of worship registered as tax-exempt nonprofits can endorse political candidates to their ...

The Democratic contest for an Illinois Senate seat is shaping up as a test of the political power of Gov. JB Pritzker over a primary field of candidates who enter the race with deep animosity for ...

The Republican primary field for the Illinois 11th Congressional District has doubled with the addition of two new candidates ...

The quarterly reports submitted to the Federal Elections Commission shed light on how candidates are spending money as well ...

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