Months before a federal judge sentenced former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to prison on Friday, the once-mighty state Democratic Party chairman took the witness stand in his corruption ...

Transit agencies in northern Illinois are facing a $771 million annual combined budget gap — and lawmakers did not pass ...

The governors of Illinois, Minnesota and New York testified Thursday before the House Oversight Committee, which has been ...

Michael Madigan, the country’s longest-serving state House leader, served as speaker of the Illinois House from 1983 until ...

Newsom’s barrage of attacks have left many demoralized Democrats hoping this is the anti-Trump leader they’ve been waiting ...

In North Carolina, it was a lawsuit over the state’s voter registration records. In Arizona and Wisconsin, it was a letter to ...

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has been clear about his red line as the Senate takes up the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act: no ...

A former Minnesota House speaker and her husband were killed and a state senator and his wife were wounded in targeted ...

At universities in California, Illinois, Louisiana and Texas, students report changes to campus clubs and activities, diminished research opportunities and fears for international students’ safety.

DACA, a program that has allowed hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to build stable lives and contribute to ...

The judge who sentenced Michael Madigan to 7 1/2 years in prison said the former Illinois House speaker's testimony was “a nauseating display of perjury and evasion” that was “hard to watch.” “You ...

He has a podcast. He's on Fox News, liberal talk shows and your social media feeds. Gov. Andy Beshear is continuing to build ...