If you’re going to embrace performative politics, be sure you give a good performance. Instead, the Democrats at President ...

Tuyet Le led the advocacy group Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago for 19 years, overseeing Chicago’s first mayoral candidate forum for Asian Americans, championing voter education and voter ...

Former Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner said it was “very, very, very tough to shrink” the government in his state, while former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie acknowledged making some cuts to human ...

After making history in 2017 as Aurora’s first Black mayor and cruising to reelection four years ago, Richard Irvin now faces a political challenge partly of his own making as he seeks a third term ...

Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner will seek reelection with a stark warning: The state is approaching a death spiral — departing people and businesses suppress growth; the legislature responds by ...

State Rep. Sharon Chung, Bloomington Sgt. Kiel Nowers and Immigration Project's Charlotte Alvarez discuss the local impact of ...

Since then, the GOP’s hard-line move to the right on social issues and the state’s changing demographics has led to only one Republican winning Illinois’ top office since 2002, Bruce Rauner ...

Johnson became the first mayor since Richard M. Daley to testify before Congress when he, along with the mayors from New York ...

Bruce Rauner. But Republicans in the era of Trump’s presidency have promoted the narrative that cities run by Democratic mayors are just boiling over with an invasion of lawbreaking immigrants.