Patrick M. O'Connell

While Democrats across the country have trumpeted protections for pre-existing conditions in the nation’s health care law, Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan sought to reframe the debate by focusing attention...

Former Vice President Joe Biden campaigned for Democratic congressional candidate Lauren Underwood on Wednesday, telling an exuberant crowd of supporters in St. Charles that “the very character of our country,...

Congressional hopefuls Sean Casten and Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, along with other Illinois Democrats, teed off on the Republican tax code overhaul Tuesday, slamming it as a boondoggle for non-wealthy taxpayers...

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...

The suspect arrested Friday in connection with a series of pipe bombs mailed to critics of President Donald Trump also may have threatened U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez on social media...

Former Republican presidential contender and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is set to hold a late-campaign fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam next week as he tries to fend...

Democrat Lauren Underwood focused her attacks against Republican U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren on health care during what’s likely to be the only broadcast debate of an increasingly intense campaign for...