The Champaign County Board has a vacancy to fill, prompting the local Democratic Party to solicit applications from ...

Democrats will need to sort through a pileup of potential candidates who see an opportunity to harness backlash to the Trump ...

The state needs to think big and pursue a path other than taxing its way out of this ever-more-threatening disaster. Governor ...

Lawmakers are still reeling from the shooting that killed one Minnesota state legislator and her husband and severely wounded ...

Madigan, 83, who for years was widely hailed as the most powerful politician in the state, was convicted on bribery ...

Illinois members of congress are reacting after former Illinois speaker of the house, Michael Madigan, was sentenced to 7.5 ...

The man accused of assassinating the top Democrat in the Minnesota House held deeply religious and politically conservative ...

The assassination of a Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and the shooting of another lawmaker and his wife ...

Vance Boelter, the subject of a nationwide manhunt, described himself as an experienced security professional who worked in ...

U.S. House Republican Rep. Brandon Gill of Texas has called for governors who "flout federal law" with sanctuary policies to ...

A bill awaiting Gov. JB Pritzker's signature marked a rare instance in which Democrats and Republicans largely agreed on a ...