While previously many workers had to stay in or near cities with high costs of living, some smaller, more affordable cities ...

Voting machines stand ready at Oakton Elementary School on Election Day, April 1, 2025. With all votes tallied and all ...

The second would allow Sangamon County to create a process for countywide elected officials to be recalled through a referendum vote in the 2026 election. Both bills now head to the Illinois House.

Aldermen once again delayed an expected vote Monday on whether Chicago police ... free access to programs in the city’s parks. Cook County Commissioner Bill Lowry said government partners ...

How Pope Leo XIV chooses to tackle critical topics from same-sex marriage to women in the church remains to be seen, but ...

The Illinois Department of Public Health has updated its annual advisory on sport fish consumption, and a lake in Central ...

The Vatican announced the election of Pope Leo XIV shortly after white smoke blew from the roof of the Sistine Chapel on ...

George Ryan began his political career on the Kankakee County board ... Democratic Illinois congressman, Glenn Poshard, for the governorship in 1998 with 51 percent of the vote to Mr. Poshard ...

Election day is May 3 for a number of local races across Galveston County, including school boards and city council races.

a demographic shift in the state as Republicans leave Illinois and being outpaced by Democrats in vote-by-mail ballots,” by the Daily Herald’s Alicia Fabbre. — Lake County sheriff 2026 race ...

On Wednesday, five Democratic Illinois Supreme Court justices adopted ... years and four months after the adoption of the current map,” the justices wrote. The court’s ruling isn’t a major ...