To inform voters, the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ asked candidates to respond to questions about key issues. Answers are ...

Kathleen Benner is the associate general counsel at Children’s Health System of Texas, where she provides strategic and legal ...

Kane County Treasurer City: Elgin Age: 49 Occupation: Kane County Auditor since 2020 Previous offices held: Kane County Regional ...

Skokie school board member Bushra Amiwala (Kellogg ’25), a Democratic candidate running to represent Illinois’ 9th ...

Candidate Mark Fredrickson tells Patch why he should be elected to Congress in Illinois' 9th District on March 17.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Gov. JB Pritzker is backing one of his longtime Statehouse allies, Rep. Margaret Croke, to be Illinois' next comptroller. Croke has represented an Illinois House district on ...

Belmont Bruins (21-3, 11-2 MVC) at UIC Flames (13-11, 8-5 MVC) Chicago; Friday, 9 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: UIC hosts Belmont after Rashund Washington Jr. scored 22 points in UIC’s 81-74 loss to the ...

Illinois Democratic and Republican voters will soon decide their party’s nominees for races at the federal and state levels, as well as in a few local races, during the March 17 primary election.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) announced Tuesday that his state is joining the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, becoming the second state to do so since the ...

Illinois is joining a network of the World Health Organization in hopes of better positioning the state to handle potential health threats, following the U.S. withdrawal from the group last month.

Illinois’ population has grown for the third consecutive year, according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. The state added more than 16,000 residents from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2025.

In the midst of Illinois’ 11-game win streak, Brad Underwood’s unit has hovered in the 5-10 range of all the key metrics – inching up and down throughout the past seven weeks and change. But after the ...