Thanks, Mayor Harvey. Dick Durbin was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1997 and has been the Senate Democratic Whip since 2005.

During a budget hearing held by the Senate Appropriations Committee several weeks ago, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) asked HHS ...

Terry Redman, chairman of the DeWitt County Democratic Party, received the Party Builder Award at the annual Democratic County Chairs' Association Brunch on Aug. 13 in Springfield.

But in some of the nation’s biggest Senate races, Democrats are relying on an old strategy of recruiting—and then clearing ...

While the standoff appears to be drawing to a close, Texas Democrats in Illinois have laid the groundwork for declaring victory even if the Texas GOP eventually passes its map.

Budzinski’s vote is suspicious ...

After leaving the state to block the G.O.P. from redrawing the state’s congressional maps, Democratic lawmakers are keeping ...

Local leaders slam President Donald Trump’s threat to take over policing in Chicago as flat-out illegal. And school board members push back on a CPS budget that puts off a huge pension payment.

The U.S. Department of Justice is insisting Illinois election officials hand over the state’s entire computerized voter ...