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Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner concedes to J.B. Pritzker on Nov. 6, 2018, at The Drake hotel in Chicago.

Governor’s office will be first elected post for Democrat J.B. Pritzker, just like Bruce Rauner

May 15, 2019 at 5:16 p.m.

With Democratic Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker’s victory Tuesday night, Illinois voters have traded one wealthy businessman with no previous governmental experience for another. When Pritzker is inaugurated Jan. 14, he’ll take...

Democrat J.B. Pritzker topples first-term Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner in Illinois governor race

May 12, 2019 at 1:41 p.m.

Billionaire Democrat J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday soundly defeated first-term Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, who conceded his re-election bid less than an hour after the polls closed, giving Democrats near total...

A young attendee holds a sign during a get-out-the-vote rally with former President Barack Obama at the UIC Pavilion on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018, in Chicago.

In Chicago, former President Barack Obama campaigns for Illinois Democratic ticket, says ‘don’t be bamboozled’ by GOP rhetoric

May 12, 2019 at 1:41 p.m.

Former President Barack Obama returned to his former hometown Sunday, attempting to convert Democratic enthusiasm into votes on Tuesday as he decried Republicans for going beyond political spin to fearmongering...

Obama encabeza concentración en Chicago para J.B. Pritzker, Kwame Raoul y otros demócratas

December 11, 2018 at 7:42 p.m.

El ex presidente Barack Obama instó a los votantes de Illinois a impulsar el cambio votando en las elecciones del martes, durante un discurso de aproximadamente 45 minutos en nombre...

<p>A group of Democratic candidates and citizens walk to Downer's Grove Village Hall to cast their ballots on the first day of early voting on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018.</p>

Amid talk of a potential blue wave, Democrats already have begun to turn the tide in GOP suburbs

May 15, 2019 at 5:14 p.m.

In 1995, the suburbs were the center of Illinois’ Republican universe, the bucolic backyards the home of the leaders of the state legislature as they strove to drive an agenda...

Former President Barack Obama makes a campaign stop at Caffe Paradiso with Democratic gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker after speaking at University of Illinois in Urbana on Sept. 7, 2018.

Former President Barack Obama to visit Chicago on Sunday to campaign for Democrats including J.B. Pritzker

May 15, 2019 at 5:14 p.m.

Former president Barack Obama will visit Chicago on Sunday to campaign for Democratic governor candidate J.B. Pritzker and the party’s suburban congressional candidates. The rally at the University of Illinois...

Illinois attorney general candidates Democrat Kwame Raoul, center, and Republican Erika Harold, right, talk with moderator Carol Marin before the start of their televised forum at the WTTW-Ch. 11 studios in Chicago on Oct. 29, 2018.

In final attorney general forum, Kwame Raoul says he’ll fight President Trump; Erika Harold says she’ll pursue corruption

May 15, 2019 at 5:14 p.m.

The two major candidates to be the state’s next attorney general hammered on their main campaign themes during their last televised forum on Monday, with Democrat Kwame Raoul saying he’d...

U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren, left, and Democratic challenger Lauren Underwood, center, debate during a voter forum hosted by WSPY radio at the Historic Kendall County Courthouse in Yorkville, on Oct. 23, 2018.

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Former VP Joe Biden to campaign in Kane County for Democrat Lauren Underwood

May 15, 2019 at 5:14 p.m.

Former Vice President Joe Biden will be in the suburbs on Wednesday stumping for Democratic congressional candidate Lauren Underwood. Biden will be at the Kane County Fairgrounds in St. Charles...

Christopher Conklin, 15, of Leroy, Ill., who drove down with his father to attend President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again rally, sells souvenirs near Southern Illinois Airport on Oct. 26, 2018, in Murphysboro, Ill.

Despite deadly Pittsburgh tragedy, President Trump’s political show goes on as he rallies Republicans in southern Illinois

August 22, 2019 at 9:40 a.m.

Against the backdrop of the national tragedy of a deadly shooting rampage in a Pittsburgh synagogue, President Donald Trump campaigned in southern Illinois for Republicans on Saturday and said Americans...

U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren, left, and Democratic challenger Lauren Underwood participate in a voter forum, hosted by WSPY radio, at the Historic Kendall County Courthouse in Yorkville, Ill., on Oct. 23, 2018.

The 14th Congressional District has been a Republican bastion for years. Is 2018 the year it turns blue?

May 15, 2019 at 5:13 p.m.

Randy Hultgren, wearing a gray dress shirt and no tie, strolled down the center aisle of the stuffy second-floor auditorium inside the 154-year-old Kendall County Courthouse, smiling and pausing briefly...

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