In other action, downtown Ald. Brendan Reilly is gathering petition signatures to challenge Cook County Board President Toni ...

The 2020 headcount was so flawed that some political leaders consider it appropriate to redo their maps mid-decade.

After the Texas House failed to make a quorum on Tuesday, Texas Democrats were told to return to Austin by Friday​ or face ...

Israel presses forward with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial plan to take control of the Gaza Strip.

Unit 371 at Illinois Masonic Hospital was a major treatment center for AIDS and inspired similar wards in Chicago and across ...

WBEZ and its sister station, Vocalo, are halfway toward a $3 million fundraising goal aimed at filling the gap in federal ...

Democrats have benefited for years from aggressive gerrymandering, but they treat Republican redistricting as a ...

The attorney general is calling on the “full faith and credit” clause of the U.S. Constitution, which says states should ...

President Donald Trump is increasing pressure on Republican-led states to redraw congressional boundaries. Vice President JD Vance went to Indiana on Thursday as the president called for a new federal ...

Blue state Republicans whose political futures would be at risk in retaliatory redistricting efforts by Democrats are sounding the alarm on Texas’s mid-decade effort to pad the GOP majority.

Peggy’s connections extend beyond her father and siblings. She married Richard Schulze, a former business associate of the ...

After leaving Texas for Illinois to prevent a legislative vote on a Republican redistricting plan, state House Democratic leader Gene Wu needed a means to project his voice -- and viewpoints -- to a ...