President-elect Trump chose Linda McMahon, a former wrestling executive, to lead the Dept. of Education. McMahon has promised to overturn the very department she was hired to oversee.
GOP congressman and others are challenging Illinois law requiring proper mail-in ballots be counted within two weeks after Election Day.
Former Orland Park Trustee Jim Dodge has created a slate to challenge Mayor Keith Pekau’s ticket in the April 1 election.
The 2024 presidential election featured sky-high turnout, approaching the historic levels of the 2020 contest and contradicting long-held conventional political wisdom that Republicans struggle to win races in which many people vote.
As President-elect Donald Trump makes a flurry of choices to fill out his incoming administration’s Cabinet, the lobbying for key positions has been fierce behind closed doors — and sometimes publicly.
Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party’s prodigious fundraising operation raised more than $1 billion in her loss to Donald Trump, but the vice president is still pushing donors for more money after the election.
After Trump victory, requests for abortion pills, birth control and sterilizations surge in Illinois and nationally
A House Republican victory in Arizona, alongside a win in slow-counting California earlier Wednesday, gave the GOP the 218 House victories that make up the majority.
City Clerk Nyota Figgs alleges Mayor Thaddeus Jones is ineligible to run for reelection due to results of a 2021 referendum.
President-Elect Donald Trump’s plans to reshape education in America, including eliminating the Department of education and altering school curricula will impact Chicago Public Schools.