Rep. Dan Ugaste (R-Geneva), who had been considering a run for Governor in 2026, announced Wednesday he would not run for the state’s top office and would seek re-election to the House.
Read MoreCandidates are filing campaign finance paperwork ahead of the 2026 election cycle.
Read MoreWhile Illinois Republicans have struggled to find top tier candidates for Governor and U.S. Senate in 2026, little has been made so far about what Republicans may step into down ballot races next year.
Read MoreThree open congressional seats and the possibility of a fourth have led to growing fields that some political experts predict could cause “chaos” primary races next spring.
Read MoreDemocrats around the state are publicly and privately praising Governor JB Pritzker’s announcement Tuesday he’s selected former State Representative and former Deputy Governor Christian Mitchell as his running mate next year.
Read MoreWith one month before petition circulation begins for the 2026 election, sources say Senate Republicans are honing in on two Democratic seats as potential pickup opportunities.
Read MoreGovernor JB Pritzker may just want to go ahead and pick a running mate already.
Read MoreGovernor JB Pritzker announced his campaign for a third term in office Thursday, citing his successes of his first six-and-a-half years in office without laying out priorities for a third term.
Read MoreA third party poll of a potential Republican primary race between appointed Sen. Darby Hills (R-Barrington Hills) and Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Barrington Hills), shows a potential problem for the appointed incumbent.
Read MoreMultiple Democratic sources tell The Illinoize Governor JB Pritzker will announce his campaign for a third term this Thursday.
Read MoreLt. Governor Juliana Stratton, one of the top Democrats seeking a seat in the U.S. Sente next year, says she fears the “Big, Beautiful Bill” tax and spending legislation under consideration in the Senate is most “dangerous” for its potential cuts to Medicaid.
Read MoreMultiple Republican sources say former RNC National Committeeman Richard Porter is likely to enter the U.S. Senate race in the coming weeks, giving Republicans potentially their best chance to win a Senate race in the state in sixteen years.
Read MoreGovernor JB Pritzker signed the Fiscal Year 2026 budget into law Monday, spending $55.2 billion, an increase of $2 billion over the current fiscal year and a $15 billion increase since Pritzker took office in 2019.
Read MoreThe names of some Illinois lawmakers appeared on documents belonging to the man accused of assassinating a Minnesota lawmaker and attempting to kill another.
Read MoreGeorge Papadopoulos, a former Donald Trump campaign aide who spent time in federal prison for making false statements to the FBI about his contact with the Russian government while working for the Trump campaign, will run for Congress in Illinois in 2026, multiple sources tell The Illinoize.
Read MoreWhile legislation aimed at amending the state’s pension law to “fix” tier 2 pensions to quell any issues with federal “safe harbor” laws didn’t advance, a provision did make it into the Budget Implementation, or BIMP, bill in the final hours of the legislative session.
Read MoreDuPage County Sheriff Jim Mendrick has had the GOP race for Governor in 2026 to himself since March, but he may be getting company soon.
Read MoreHow are Chicago area mass transit agencies preparing for the future after the legislature failed to pass governance reform and a plan to help close a $770 million “fiscal cliff” for 2026?
Read MoreDemocrats admitted the challenges in passing a budget was a challenge and clearly attempted to make President Donald Trump the “bad guy” in the state’s financial situation.
Read MoreAfter the Senate passed a controversial Chicago-area mass transit funding bill late Saturday night, one House source texted “it’s doomed over here, not sure why they would even send it.”
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