Six of the current 18 members of Illinois’ congressional delegation appear to be drawn into potential member vs. member primaries in a new draft congressional map released by House and Senate Democrats Saturday afternoon.
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The top Republican on the House Redistricting Committee says Democrats have introduced a congressional map that splits up communities like counties and towns all across the state.
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Based on a new court filing, Democrats may not know if their September legislative map is valid anymore.
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Advocacy groups and residents from residents of an area of southwest Chicago issued complaints over the General Assembly’s proposed congressional redistricting plan Wednesday.
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Parents from almost 150 school districts across the state have filed a class-action lawsuit challenging Governor JB Pritzker’s mask requirements and quarantine policies in schools via executive order.
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If Rockford-area Democrats have their way, there will be someone from their neck of the woods representing the new 17th district in Congress after the 2022 election.
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A federal court in Chicago has thrown out the legislative map passed by Democrats in May, but didn’t go so far as to throw out the September rewrite of the maps.
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Another minority group has filed a lawsuit against legislative maps passed in May and edited in August.
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Quarterly campaign finance reports were due at midnight Friday night. Here’s our quick rundown.
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There could be a lot happening during the next two weeks during veto session in Springfield.
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In an effort to strengthen Illinois’ Democratic congressional majority from 13-5 to 14-3, Democrats released a new gerrymandered congressional map Friday afternoon.
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Former Sen. Paul Schimpf’s campaign for Governor has failed to gain traction thus far, and some influential Republicans believe he should get out of the race for Governor and potentially explore a run for Attorney General.
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Governor JB Pritzker says he supports lawmakers repealing Illinois’ parental notification law for minors under 17 seeking an abortion.
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The Illinoize spoke with more than a dozen Republican political operatives, current and former legislators, and other “insiders” about who the Republican candidates for governor should choose as their running mate.
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A group of African Americans critical of the Democrat-drawn legislative redistricting plan is asking the United States Department of Justice to investigate the new map.
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An Effingham County judge is the latest to reverse penalties from the Illinois State Board of Education against school districts defying Governor JB Pritzker’s school mask mandate.
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Democratic members of the state congressional delegation huddled with Democratic legislative staffers a couple of weeks ago trying to flesh out changes to their districts.
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Legislative hearings on the congressional remap start Thursday, so we wanted to ask a rudimentary question.
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On the first day for landlords to file eviction actions against tenants in court Monday, it doesn’t appear there was a giant flood of cases filed around the state.
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In the song of redistricting musical chairs, freshman Rep. Paul Jacobs (R-Pomona) found himself out of his current 115th District in southern Illinois and into a primary.
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