As President Donald Trump floats grand ideas like reacquiring the Panama Canal and taking over Greenland, some rural residents of Illinois and Oregon are promoting geopolitical change of their own: Th ...

As Evanston prepares to elect its next mayor, city clerk and City Council in the April 1 consolidated local election, voters are advised to double-check ...

The 2025 local consolidated election is on Tuesday, April 1. Polling places across Evanston will be open to voters from 6 a.m ...

Early voting started Monday in suburban Cook County and voters will have until the end of March to cast their ballot in the ...

Many voters don’t make the time to cast a ballot in their local elections, and that is a sad statement for our democracy.

There’s been ongoing controversy over property valuations in Cook County, Illinois, which includes Chicago. And now multiple ...

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi fixed 491 of at least 620 properties that were misclassified or undervalued during the 2023 ...

Preckwinkle cited building upon efforts of her current tenure such as criminal justice reform, expanding health care access ...

With a year to go until the 2026 primary election, Democratic Cook County officials are marking their territory. County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, Sheriff Tom Dart, Treasurer Maria Pappas and ...

With the Bradley County Growth Policy Coordinating Committee having made its recommendations to approve a new urban growth boundary and an agreement on annexation practices, the governing bodies of Br ...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced Monday that she is running for another term. Preckwinkle cited her ...