Illinois Democrats pushed through their plans Friday night to redraw the district boundaries of the state legislature, state Supreme Court and the Cook County Board of Review – despite ...

Or, perhaps, you might look at a map ... political influence of the Republican governor at that time, Elbridge Gerry. Most of the legislative districts in Illinois, and particularly in Cook County ...

Redistricting is traditionally the most political procedure conducted by Illinois lawmakers, the maps’ boundaries a ... are extremely narrow. A Cook County judge tossed the 2014 effort, and ...

I agree with Gov. Bruce Rauner that Illinois should amend its constitution to change the way political maps are drawn. The current system, in which the party in power gets to create new ...

Illinois voted in the 2024 primary election Tuesday and one of the most notable tickets on the ballot remained the presidential races. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump ...

Thirty-three counties are exploring the possibility of forming a separate state, distancing themselves from Cook County. The Illinois Separation Movement is efforting to get more counties and ...

it may have seemed like a rare moment of bipartisanship at the Illinois Capitol: Democratic President Barack Obama called for changes to a process for drawing political maps that too often favors ...