Susan Kuczka

Mayor Richard Daley won re-election in February, but Tuesday's runoff election will determine how many friendly faces he can rely on in the City Council over the next four years....

Hoping to capitalize on Illinois' complex definition of residency, the lawyer for Tank Johnson said Friday that misdemeanor gun-possession charges against his client should be dismissed because the defensive lineman...

Surging Democrats benefited from a "trickle-down effect" as they captured seats in the Chicago suburbs long held by Republicans, who kept a grip on county boards, political leaders said Wednesday....

Once finely balanced between the city and the suburbs, the political scales of metropolitan Chicago have been tipping ever more Democratic, and fierce congressional races in two long-safe Republican bastions...

As Republican leaders wondered aloud Thursday how damaging the House page scandal will be in the midterm elections, they needed to look no further than hotly contested congressional races in...

With a worried look toward November, a coalition of Republicans in Congress is hoping to change the subject from the Iraq war and immigration to matters far less controversial as...

Jurors in the corruption trial of former Gov. George Ryan were told last fall that they should expect to sacrifice at least four months of their lives in the name...

For the first time in nearly 30 years, Democrats in the north and northwest suburbs will have a choice when they vote in the 10th Congressional District primary. Attorney Zane...

Waiting at a coffee shop Monday as the evening rush hour crawled by, Sarah Snyder was trying to find the energy to get behind the wheel. Her 5-mile daily commute...

Hoping for a victory in court before the March 21 primary contest, seven judicial candidates in Lake and McHenry Counties are asking a judge in Springfield to throw out a...