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Complete coverage of local and national primary and general elections, including results and analysis to keep Chicago voters informed.
The first GOP primary debate for the 2024 election will take place Wednesday evening in Milwaukee and streamed on Fox News’ website.
The former president and leading GOP candidate for the 2024 nomination, says he will bypass Wednesday’s debate in Milwaukee. He may hold a counter-programming event.
Donald Trump Trump embraces his legal woes, turning them into the core message of his bid to return to the White House as he accuses Joe Biden of using the Justice Department to go after a political rival.
In Illinois, 8% of the population doesn’t speak English very well, and that’s a barrier for immigrants participating in civic life. Dozens of organizations such as the Selfreliance Association have partnered with the city and state to help limited English speakers access health care, food stamps and other services.
The agreement, to be signed Tuesday, “is more expansive than in years past and comes earlier in the process than ever before,” Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison said.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ trip to Chicago came as she continues a monthlong series of events to galvanize key Democratic groups, including Hispanic and Black voters.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cites First Amendment in defending himself after suggesting COVID may have been ‘ethnically targeted’ to spare Ashkenazi Jews, Chinese people.
Donald Trump says he got a target letter. Such letters can precede an indictment and is used to advise people that prosecutors have evidence linking them to a crime.
Florida governor and GOP presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis, who is trailing Donald Trump in polls, cut fewer than 10 paid staffers in a belt-tightening move.
Former mayor is in the hot seat over reelection campaign emails; Council member allegedly directed city employees to punish a critic.
Kamala Harris will also headline a fundraiser to benefit the Biden/Harris re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Eileen O’Neill Burke, who stepped down as an appellate court judge this month, is the second candidate to enter the race for Cook County state’s attorney.
Attorneys for former President Donald Trump cited challenges to selecting jurors and concerns about whether he would get a fair trial before the November 2024 election.
The mayor called the 223-page document the “foundation for how we will lead our city well into the future.” It’s loaded with ambitious, politically explosive ideas.
Darren Bailey, a GOP farmer from Xenia, will challenge five-term incumbent Rep. Mike Bost in the 12th District, pitting two far-right Republicans against one another.
“We’ve added over 13 million jobs, more jobs in two years than any president has added in a four-year term. And folks, that’s no accident. That’s Bidenomics in action,” Biden told a crowd gathered Wednesday in the lobby of the Old Post Office.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his wife, MK, and a group of trial lawyers are hosting fundraisers after Biden touts his economic record in a ‘Bidenomics’ speech in Chicago.
While the estimated budget hole is larger than the $18.2 million gap projected last year, it is one of the county’s smallest deficits in the last decade. Government leaders said hiring hasn’t budged much in the past year. “We do need to staff up,” Cook County Board President Preckwinkle said.
In 2020, Nix was campaign chief of staff for then-Sen. Kamala Harris when she joined the Biden ticket.
Stamps was one of six candidates interviewed Tuesday evening by Democratic leaders representing the Chicago wards and suburban townships that make up the district that Johnson was previously elected to serve as a Cook County commissioner.
The deal bars Donald Trump, who is again running for president, from intimidating witnesses or victims, including on social media.
Donald Trump assailed Jack Smith as a ‘thug prosecutor’ and a ‘deranged guy’ after being indicted on felony charges for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights
The measure would have required a 60% supermajority to pass future constitutional amendments. This vote sets up a fall battle over abortion rights in the GOP-leaning state.
Donald Trump’s lawyer says he never asked Mike Pence to overturn the will of the people in the 2020 election and only sought ‘a pause’ in the certification of votes. Pence rejects that argument in multiple interviews.
Trump’s three not-guilty pleas appeals to his supporters — and enhances his martyr status as he leads rivals seeking the 2024 Republican Party nomination for president.
Biden, Kamala Harris, Jill Biden and second gentleman Doug Emhoff will fan out across the country in the next few weeks to build coffers and make a case for reelection in ’24.
Donald Trump clearly doesn’t believe the election was stolen, but lots of people do.
Former GOP gubernatorial nominee Darren Bailey is cozying up to Donald Trump as Bailey considers challenging Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Bost. “What President Trump went through yesterday could happen to anyone [sic] of us for any reason!” Bailey wrote on Wednesday.
Ex-Rep. Liz Cheney received the 2023 Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government — named after the Illinois senator and corruption fighter — in a ceremony hosted by the University of Illinois system.
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias told the Sun-Times he was “blown away” after reading about book bans across the country. “To me, this is a slippery slope, and it goes against what education is about,” he said.
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