Far southwest suburban state Sen. Patrick Joyce, D-Essex, fended off Republican challenger Phil Nagel on Tuesday to earn a ...

Preliminary, unofficial election results show no seats in the state House or Senate have changed party hands, although a few ...

A top Republican lawmaker in Illinois is concerned that Governor J.B. Pritzker will try to saddle residents with new or higher taxes to balance Illinois’ next budget.

An Illinois Senate committee hit pause on a bill to ban carbon sequestration injections near aquifers after more than an hour ...

Martin Sandoval, D-Chicago, who served in the Illinois Senate from 2003 to 2020. Angeles Sandoval ran for a seat on the Cook County Board of Commissioners in 2018 but lost in the Democratic Party ...

Chung was elected to the 91st District — which includes Bartonville, East Peoria and Bloomington — in 2022. Her Facebook page ...

"I'm calling on Gov. Pritzker to pledge to not increase taxes on Illinois families and businesses in this upcoming budget ...

Illinois lawmakers returned to Springfield Tuesday for the first time since May following news earlier this month that ...

The cozy relationship between lawmakers and lobbyists enables greed and graft to permeate Illinois politics and feeds a ...

Simon, a reform-minded southern Illinois Democrat who went on to become lieutenant governor and served for decades in Congress and the U.S. Senate, detailed how some lawmakers filed bills called ...

Today, the Tribune Editorial Board turns its attention to Springfield with our endorsements for the Illinois Senate, which will be followed later by our endorsements for the Illinois House.

Former assistant U.S. attorney April M. Perry will join the federal trial bench in Chicago following the U.S. Senate’s confirmation Tuesday of her nomination as a federal judge.