* State's financial future hinges on tax and spending decisions * Democrats have firm, veto-proof control on state legislature ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Facing one of the nation's worst budget crises, the Democrats who run Illinois insist they're serious about overhauling the ...

In what Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lynn Sweet calls "a tactic designed to turn off GOP primary voters," Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) sent a letter to...

Following the lead of some of the top Republican members of the Illinois General Assembly, who last week filed suit over the state's redrawn House and...

Two of the Illinois General Assembly's most powerful Republican legislators filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday that claims the state's newly drawn cong...

Illinois governor Pat Quinn signed off Friday on a redistricting proposal that will sharply undercut the state's newly elected Republican congressmen....

The Democrat-controlled Illinois Senate approved a new congressional map Tuesday that could erase gains made by Republicans. Following a partisan 34-2...

Since his narrow re-election last November, Illinois governor Pat Quinn has signed into law some major legislative undertakings: an increase of the in...

CHICAGO — In the final days before the Nov. 2 election, Democrats and Republicans are leaning on party heavyweights, energizing their bases and ...

CHICAGO — With 10 days go to until the election, Illinois candidates picked up the pace on the campaign trail Saturday, trying to round up suppo...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will make a final push for Democrats the weekend before Election Day with campaign stops in four cities. Ob...

CHICAGO — Even in this Democratic-leaning home state of President Barack Obama, the White House isn't taking anything for granted with an electi...

UPDATED 1:51 p.m. CT Two weeks after the midterm elections, Republicans have scored another win. Illinois Democrat Melissa Bean conceded to Tea Part...

Though Republican Joe Walsh has already declared victory in llinois' 8th Congressional District, absentee ballots have helped Democrat Melissa Bean's ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Alexi Giannoulias had planned to talk jobs. The Democrat in a tight race for President Barack Obama's former Senate seat wan...

CHICAGO (AP) -- First lady Michelle Obama has cast her ballot at a polling place on Chicago's South Side. Obama voted in Illinois' election at the Ma...

DECATUR, Ill. — Mike Riggen is out of work. Most of his friends are out of work, too. He's raising two children on his own and they have expensi...

President Obama arrived in his adopted hometown of Chicago Wednesday night, and kicked things off at River North's popular Graham Elliot restaurant. ...

President Obama will arrive in his adopted hometown of Chicago Wednesday night, and after a birthday dinner with some close friends, he will move on t...

There's still no word on when Illinois lawmakers will return to Springfield. The state budget is up in the air for the next fiscal year, which begins ...

Those who happened to hear any of the comments Rod Blagojevich made about Barack Obama when he was being recorded by the FBI know that the ex-gov was ...

Joe Biden will be in Chicago Monday campaigning for Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias and Democrat Dan Seals, running for the open 10th di...