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Longtime late night Chicago bar Tai’s Til 4 will get to keep the party going until 4 a.m. in the Lakeview neighborhood, after an effort by n...

From legal cannabis sales to raising taxes for schools, many voters faced referendum questions on this fall's ballots.

Here's what to know about the race for U.S. Senate in Illinois: Sen. Dick Durbin takes on Mark Curran and Willie Wilson.

AP’s VoteCast is a survey of the American electorate conducted in all 50 states by NORC at the University of Chicago for The Associated Pres...

Gov. Eric Holcomb won reelection and President Donald Trump appeared likely to also win the state.

Democratic incumbent Kim Foxx faces Republican Pat O'Brien for the job of Cook County's top prosecutor.

After a decade presiding over the juvenile courts, the county Democratic party declined to endorse Toomin, and he faced a groundswell of pro...

Rep. Lauren Underwood takes on state Sen. Jim Oberweis, of Oberweis Dairy fame, for the U.S. House seat in Illinois' 14th Congressional Dist...

Did Democrats increase their supermajority? Or did the Madigan effect boost Illinois Republicans?

Mayor Lori Lightfoot mixed it up with an activist outside a Far North Side polling place over Cook County Judge Michael Toomin, accusing the...

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Fire crews aggressively attacked the fire, according to a news release from Beecher Fire Department, but were forced to spend “a great deal...

With state finances hanging in the balance, the ballot proposition was viewed as a measure of Illinoisans' trust and faith in their current...

Speaker Madigan tested by billionaires in Illinois Supreme Court Justice Tom Kilbride retention battle.

Chicago-area voters shatter records as they cast ballots with ‘a sense of hope and purpose’

Workers in the basement of the Chicago Board of Elections process mail-in ballots on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020.

The race for the Indiana attorney general’s office was the most-contested statewide campaign for this year’s election ballot.

The state’s coronavirus hospitalizations as of Monday marked a 95% jump in Indiana’s COVID-19 patients during the past month, the data show.

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.

A 17-year-old Hoffman Estates boy has been charged with murder after prosecutors say he tried to rob his marijuana dealer, then killed the m...

John James is aiming to be the first Michigan Republican to win a U.S. Senate seat in a quarter-century, while Sen. Gary Peters is eyeing a...

The key question this holiday gift-giving season is simple: What do you get for the person who only wants this godforsaken year to end?

Here are the latest election updates from across the Chicago area and Illinois.

A federal judge in Chicago struck down a key immigration rule Monday that would deny green cards to immigrants who use food stamps or other...

Against a backdrop of pandemic, civil unrest and charged political rhetoric, it’s Election Day for those who haven’t already cast a ballot.