Clutching a photo of President Barack Obama with an overlay of words she had written about his historic presidency, Shahidah Qaiyim beamed when leaving Chicago’s McCormick Place….
Lawmakers at the Illinois Capitol are split on President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the U.S. Department of Education. How they feel about Betsy DeVos comes down to how they…
Jessica Yellin, a former CNN political reporter, is not surprised many voters seem to be ill-informed these days. “The free press is the only business that is explicitly protected…
Like some other high-profile Illinois Republicans, U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger is still not sold on Donald Trump. But he says he’s coming around. The GOP formally nominated Trump…
Jerry Delaney of Oak Park, who has been part of the feminist movement since the 1960s, is excited to see Hillary Clinton as the first female presidential candidate for a major party….
Protesters vowing to build a large scale protest movement to resist further attacks on immigrants, Muslims, women and other scapegoated targets of the Donald Trump campaign for the…
“Here they were the party of Abraham Lincoln, the party of Theodore Roosevelt, the party of Dwight David Eisenhower, unwilling to say the name of their own presidential nominee –…
Any chance that the “never Trump” crowd had to foil the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s plans has come and gone, but not without some controversy. Illinois state…
McHenry man charged with residential ...A McHenry man was charged with three felonies and two misdemeanors involving ...
Pritzker defends Illinois’ immigration lawsGov. J.B. Pritzker spent hours Thursday defending his governing record and Illinois’ ...
Man charged in Chicago officer’s ...A Freeport man is being held in Cook County Jail in connection ...
Food Bank fills gap with ...With schools closed for the summer, the Geneva-based Northern Illinois Food Bank ...
