Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he’s worried about how President Donald Trump might respond to the growing controversy over ...

Retiring Democratic Illinois Rep. Chuy Garcia’s decision to effectively hand-pick his successor in a brazen move that critics ...

Michael Heaver analyzes the UK's by-election results, highlighting Reform UK's gains against the Labour Party and ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson swore in Adelita Grijalva as a member of Congress on Wednesday, seven weeks after the Democrat won ...

In executive session, Illinois Farm Bureau board votes not to publish statements from farmers running for offices, reversing ...

Technicalities threaten to unseat multiple Madison County Republican incumbents ...

A well-informed citizenry is the backbone of a healthy democracy,” writes Lindsey Cormack in her 2024 book How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It’s Up to You to Do It). She contends that raising engaged ...

President Trump formally brought the longest government shutdown in history to an end on Wednesday night when he signed a ...

The longest government shutdown in United States history could soon end, but it will require the House of Representatives to ...

The ideal of bipartisanship has dwindled in Congress and in Washington over several decades. The Dirksen Congressional Center ...

Democrats didn’ t get the health insurance provisions they demanded added to the spending deal. And Republicans, who control the levers of power in Washington, didn’ t escape blame, according to polls ...

President Donald Trump signed a bill Wednesday to end the longest government shutdown in US history -- 43 days that paralyzed ...