Some of their big-name backers are voting members of the Cook County Democratic Party — the same body meeting today and ...

We continue with our endorsements in contested primaries for the Illinois House of Representatives. 27th District. This majority Black district includes South Side neighborhoods such as Auburn ...

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The race for U.S. Senate next year is heating up here in Illinois, but who has the advantage in the hotly contested race?

The quarterly reports submitted to the Federal Elections Commission shed light on how candidates are spending money as well ...

President Donald Trump is praising an Internal Revenue Service's court filing, which effectively clears the way for churches to endorse political candidates -- a reversal of decades of legal precedent ...

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John Shaw, director at the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, agrees that it's not 100% clear that endorsements translate to public support.

Plus, a reader laments the demise of the Sun-Times Editorial Board and political endorsements — the latter of which ceased once the newspaper became a nonprofit .

The Illinois Senate is Springfield’s upper chamber, designed to be more deliberative and less political than the House. Democrats hold a supermajority in the Senate — 37 seats to Republicans ...

Alden Global Capital, the second-largest newspaper publisher in the U.S., is soon to announce that all of its papers will no longer back political candidates for president, governor and Senate seats.