With 40 days until the election, Illinois residents can vote early at their local county clerks’ office. Vote-by-mail ballots ...

The Chicago Teachers Union is backing various candidates for Chicago Board of Education. CTU has donated more than $175,000 ...

Years of exorbitant political spending in Illinois – more than $24.3 million since 2010 – has secured an enormous amount of ...

Chicago led the state in mass layoffs, accounting for more than one-third of job cuts in August. The statewide data shows 93% ...

This episode of The Policy Shop is by writer Patrick Andriesen Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s campaign pledge to end the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system has come to fruition. The city’s contract ...

Where is support strongest for the gunshot detection system Chicago’s mayor wants to dump? In the Black and Hispanic wards ...

Illinois government workers’ union dues fund Democratic Party campaign committees, which are now seeking to tip the ...

The Fed just cut interest rates over worries about the national jobs outlook, but in Illinois unemployment has been a ...

Student literacy is in trouble nationally, which is why Illinois is one of 35 states where just 1 in 3 – or fewer – of its fourth graders met reading standards in 2022. The Chicago Teachers ...

Use the maps to find the legislators representing you. You can search for Illinois state senators, house representatives and Chicago alderman. The maps show the state districts and Chicago ...