Gerrymandering creates a situation in which a challenge to the incumbents looks hopeless. But it isn’t, and there are other ...

Former Chicago Ald. Howard Brookins (21st) was a late entry Thursday in the field of candidates seeking the Cook County ...

Calls for generational change and dissatisfaction with the status quo have been at the center of campaigns by younger ...

The retirement of longtime Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin has set up a competitive primary for U.S. Senate in Illinois. The ...

The British government aims to make all 16- and 17-year-olds eligible to vote starting in the next U.K. general election.

Some of their big-name backers are voting members of the Cook County Democratic Party — the same body meeting today and Friday to decide which candidate gets officially slated for Senate in 2026. The ...

To fend off illiberalism from the White House, the university’s president also has to confront illiberalism on campus.

Several possible 2028 presidential candidates on both sides of the aisle are visiting early primary states, signaling their eventual intent to run for the White House. While the next presidential ...

Everyone’s a political pundit these days – there’s a lot to talk about. After Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s Democratic ...

Republican Ralph Alvarado, who made history as Kentucky’s first Hispanic state legislator but then left to become Tennessee’s top public health leader, reentered Bluegrass State ...

Gummow has served as Winnebago County Clerk since 2018. She was re-elected as clerk in 2022. During her time in office Gummow ...

An unrepentant liberal, Clay served more than three decades in Congress, the first African American from Missouri. His son, Lacy Clay, succeeded him.