Juliana Stratton has told fellow Democrats that she plans to run if Sen. Dick Durbin retires and that Gov. JB Pritzker will ...

An Illinois state senator is asking the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor to make a charging decision in the death of Jackson Kradle. The 18-year-old was found dead in July ...

Now, new details have emerged about ... Jones is the son of former Illinois Senate President Emil Jones Jr., who led the state Senate from 2003 until 2009. In a statement, Jones III attorney ...

SPRINGFIELD — A downstate Republican lawmaker is urging Illinois ... now we’ve put staff in a position where they have to decide, do they want to violate federal law or do they want to violate ...

The Illinois Senate has 59 members, but not all seats are up for election at the same time. Instead, state senators serve two four-year terms and one two-year term each decade, though the pattern ...

Kelly Ayotte as governor in November but has had all Democrats representing the state in ... from the No. 2 Senate Democrat could set off a statewide primary among prominent Illinois Democrats.

A former Illinois state Senator just became the first Republican to file to succeed U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds. Jim Oberweis, former Chair of Oberweis Dairy, filed on March 5 to run in Florida’s 19th ...