U.S. senators from both political parties wrote to the acting Social Security commissioner on Thursday, expressing concern it might take the agency more than a year to implement an expansion to ...

Indiana looks to add 33 counties from Illinois that voted to leave the state - Republicans are considering the proposal after ...

Evanston was one of the first Chicago suburbs to consider eliminating single-family zoning. However, the Evanston City Council decided last month to shelve the proposal. Overall, HB1814 aligns with ...

Republicans have been winning an asymmetric war over district lines for decades. To preserve democracy, their opponents will have to fight back.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has nominated Neil Jacobs to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Illinois republican lawmakers have asked the state’s Supreme Court to throw out the current legislative map that they claim ...

Democrats currently control two-thirds of all seats in the Illinois General Assembly — 78 of 118 in the House and 40 of 59 in ...

Details of the problems being faced by US shipyards to speed up submarine production for AUKUS have been detailed in a new report to Congress. Budgetary analysis warns delays on new Columbia-class ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

ILLINOIS – The movement among Illinois counties to separate from Chicago and Cook County to form a new state continues to grow. Those for separating point to things like high taxes and a ...

The U.S. Congress is getting younger – on the whole, at least – according to a Pew Research Center analysis of representatives and senators in the new 119th Congress. The median age of voting members ...

But he has less authority over Republicans in Congress, who have a pivotal role in advancing his agenda. The Senate, for instance, must approve his choices for more than 1,000 jobs, including all ...