Election Day is less than 60 days away, and the two major party candidates ... polling results, political affiliation of the electorate, and historical voting patterns, Illinois is one of ...

Enough people are noticing in Illinois that some counties want to secede from the Land of Lincoln and join a state that isn’t ruled by public unions and their political yes-men. In November ...

LAKE FOREST, Illinois ... making the party a competitive bulwark against strongly Democratic Chicago in many statewide races, says Constance A. Mixon, a political scientist at Elmhurst University ...

which is not considered likely given the state’s Democratic Party majority in both chambers of the General Assembly. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker dismissed talk of Indiana taking counties from ...

In other counties ... a veteran of the political wars. He ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1996 and secretary of state in 1998. Kathy Salvi calls Illinois and her party in a state of ...