Edward Robert McClelland

George Ryan once gave up the job to become lieutenant governor, an office so worthless his predecessor had quit out of boredom. What changed?

IL-14 was designed as a Republican “vote sink” to corral as many red votes as possible into a single district. Then, a promising young Democrat won it.

It's a testament to the broken trust between voters and Springfield that the bluest state in the Midwest couldn't pass a graduated income tax.

In 50 elections since becoming a state, we've voted for the winning candidate 41 times.

Illinois Republicans are pouring millions into the fight to oust Justice Thomas Kilbride — and they don't even have a candidate on the ballot.

Illinois is one of a handful of states with laws protecting both abortion and same-sex marriage. But Barrett, who for years has worked in Chicago, could change plenty about the...

Activists are again asking Congress to split Illinois into two states: Chicago, and everything else.

Many modern reformers want civilian oversight of CPD. For 14 years, Chicagoans had it.

Vote-rich Chicago was colonized by migrants from Vermont, Massachusetts, and Upstate New York — and it ended up inheriting that region's political attitudes.