Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole ...

Though municipal and school board races in Illinois are nonpartisan, voters may see many of the same political themes that ...

Illinois Republicans propose bills to lower property taxes, which are currently the second highest in the nation, amid a mass exodus of residents.

According to the Department of Public Health, experienced 3,261 fatal opioid-related drug overdoses in 2022, and 2,855 in ...

Seven mostly Republican counties here voted last November to consider splitting off from their state, bringing to 33 the number that have voted to investigate leaving Illinois — almost a third ...

Elections in Rock Island are officially nonpartisan, but some aldermanic candidates have prior associations with a party. All ...

A couple of suburban Chicago legislators — one Democrat and one Republican — are attempting to foment a revolution — they’re targeting township governments in Illinois for a much smaller role.

Some Central Illinois lawmakers are pushing for harsher punishments for selling fentanyl as the state sees a decline in ...

And they contend the Democratic-led cities have so much clout in state government that rural, Republican voices get drowned out. In the last five years, voters in 33 Illinois counties have been ...