With the race for Mayor of Chicago captivating the political class today, here are eight things we’re watching as voters head to the polls.
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When the race for Chicago Mayor began taking shape late last year, many experts assumed we were barreling toward a runoff slugfest between incumbent Lori Lightfoot and Congressman Jesús “Chuy” Garcia. Since then, the two frontrunners have looked anything but.
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Even though our politics and our cultural divides and crime and inequity and size and complexity can make you want to bang your head against a wall, it’s a good time to remember why we love this place so much.
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A story this weekend highlighting how a Democratic group blew off campaign finance reporting laws to hide their expenditures in heavily contested Supreme Court races shows the glaring holes in our finance and ethics laws.
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There’s been a drumbeat in recent weeks of some far-right Republicans, backed by a Republican blogger and former GOP gubernatorial nominee Darren Bailey for Illinois Republican Party Chairman Don Tracy to resign, essentially arguing GOP losses in 2022 were Tracy’s fault.
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As new House Republican Leader Tony McCombie (R-Savanna) took questions at her first formal news conference of the new General Assembly Tuesday, a reporter harkened back to her predecessor.
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The debate over banning assault weapons and the ensuing legal battle are more in a long line of gun issues where both sides are talking past each other.
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In general, there are a lot of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who I respect the hell out of.
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There has been plenty of blame to go around in Republican circles since the epic pummeling the GOP took in the November election.
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Driving away from Springfield Thursday night, I was feeling particularly sour on the entire legislative process. It had more to do with adults acting like children than over actual policy.
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Governor JB Pritzker continually tap danced around the need to amend the cash bail provisions in the so-called SAFE-T Act during the fall campaign, and many thought he would be more clear on his position once the campaign ended and he secured a second term.
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Governor JB Pritzker never hid his progressive bona fides during his first campaign in 2018.
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There’s so much happening around the state on Election Day, but here are ten things I’m watching as the results start rolling in tonight.
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As we’ve been keeping tabs on legislative races across the state in just four days, we highlight five incumbent lawmakers most likely to lose their seats.
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Here are five Senate races to watch over the last two and a half weeks.
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Did Thursday’s first gubernatorial debate change the race between JB Pritzker and Darren Bailey?
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Radio host Dan Proft’s response to the rightly critical news that the Daily Herald’s parent company was printing Proft’s obviously political tabloids pretending to be news sources has been akin to a four-year-old who had his Tonka truck taken away.
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The last thing Darren Bailey’s lagging campaign needs is more conversation about social issues.
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We answer reader questions.
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Is ultraconservative southern Illinois farmer Darren Bailey dragging down the Republican ticket?
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