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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?
Expanded early voting began in communities throughout the suburbs and all of Illinois on Monday for the March 19 political primary elections. Here is a list of Daily Herald endorsements in ...
Political endorsements: Explained ... Illinois or the nation as a whole, you’ll often see these articles featured more prominently in the paper and on our website, ...
CHICAGO (CBS)-- As the race for Illinois governor heats up, two of the top Democratic candidates are gaining praise in political circles. At Lincoln United Methodist Church on the South Side, J.B ...
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 ...
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 .
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.
CHICAGO — Michael Madigan battled governors, piped money into campaigns and steered the Democratic agenda in Illinois for a generation. Of all the titles he accrued over his 50-year political ...
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 ...