In a sit-down interview with the Washington Examiner, LaHood said he’s happy with his current job representing Illinois’s ...

Illinois Republicans are divided into ... at home in nearly one-third of the households in the six counties surrounding Cook. Republican George Ryan won the governorship in 1998 with 70% of ...

Most counties in Illinois vote Republican. In the 2022 gubernatorial election, Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) won 12 of the state’s 102 counties. Due to the large population of the heavily Democratic ...

but it’s a dead-end idea that will never be approved by the (Democratic-controlled Illinois) legislature,” said Mike Parsons, a Republican member of the board of commissioners of Clark County.

And they contend the Democratic-led cities have so much clout in state government that rural, Republican voices get drowned out. In the last five years, voters in 33 Illinois counties have been ...

Seven mostly Republican counties here voted last November to consider splitting off from their state, bringing to 33 the number that have voted to investigate leaving Illinois — almost a third ...

Pope Leo XIV is registered to vote in the United States and has previously voted in some Republican primaries, but he is not registered as a member of a political party.