Former Republican Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh announced Tuesday he is formally joining the Democratic Party because “the stakes are simply too high to NOT become a Democrat.” “Let’s start with the obvious ...

Several Republican state legislators say they will be irreparably harmed if a court doesn’t stop the state from enacting the ...

In a sit-down interview with the Washington Examiner, LaHood said he’s happy with his current job representing Illinois’s ...

Now Walsh, who had been calling himself an independent after his post-Trump defection from the GOP, has announced that he’s ...

Illinois lawmakers filed more than 7,500 bills this spring session, and 615 of them crossed the finish line. While most bills ...

Multiple Eastern Illinois Republican lawmakers filed a lawsuit against Senate President Don Harmon and House Speaker Emanuel ...

Latter-day Saint voters are less Republican than they once were but have warmed to Donald Trump significantly, according to ...

In our basically one-party state ... has participated in and observed Illinois politics for six decades as an elected state legislator, statewide Republican candidate, campaign manager for ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to consider reviving a Republican challenge to an Illinois law that allows mail ballots to be ...

SPRINGFIELD Several Illinois elected officials have released the following statements in response to the recent passage of ...

Illinois Republican Congressman Darin LaHood is vowing that President Trump’s tax bill will not kick any Illinoisans off Medicaid or food stamp programs, and that it'll just root out waste, fraud and ...

State Rep. Bill Hauter (R-Morton) said he is concerned with $1 billion in new spending, plus new taxes on nicotine products, ...