It’s time we get serious about reigning in people and organizations that can, and do, have so much influence on state government.
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A Washington Post report Thursday set fires across Illinois’ political community, alleging a network of fake newspapers mailed for free around the state in the run up to the 2022 election coordinated content with numerous top Republican campaigns.
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Shortly after the Associated Press called the Chicago mayoral race for Brandon Johnson last night, I received a couple of texts.
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Let’s take a look at Chicago, Naperville, Joliet, Springfield, and Champaign.
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The Senate passed legislation Thursday to lift the state’s ban on new nuclear construction that has been in effect since 1987.
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Paul Vallas is the decided favorite down the stretch.
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We open up our inbox again to answer your questions.
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This runoff for Chicago Mayor could outline the fissures that exist throughout the Democratic party all around the country.
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It was a shocking rise and fall from political grace for Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
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When Congressman Jesús Chuy Garcia (D-Chicago) entered the race for Chicago Mayor in May, many observers said it was a near lock for he and incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot to end up squaring off in the April runoff. In the end, both were on the outside looking in.
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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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