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Tower Green in Western Springs will be the backdrop for a Get out the Vote Rally organized by Indivisible West Suburban Chicago from 1 to 2 p.m. Oct. 17. (Steve Metsch/Daily Southtown)

Grassroots group holding ‘get out the vote rally’ in Western Springs

By Steve Metsch

October 12, 2026 at 4:57 p.m.

Indivisible West Suburban Chicago will encourage early voting at a rally from 1 to 2...

State representatives work in the House chamber May 27, 2026. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Republican Adam Beaty challenges Rep. Anthony DeLuca for 80th state House

By Evy Lewis

October 12, 2026 at 1:27 p.m.

Police Sgt. Adam Beaty, Rep. Anthony DeLuca talk property taxes, data centers and solar farms...

Will County government offices in Joliet (Daily Southtown file photo)

Will County District 5 candidates talk solar farms, Des Plaines River bridge

By Michelle Mullins

October 12, 2026 at 3:29 p.m.

Democrats Sherry Williams and Karen Johnson face Republicans Dave Oxley and James “JJ” Balonek in...

U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, 2nd, right, speaks to Rep. Lauren Underwood, 14th, and Rep. Bill Foster, 11th, on Feb. 17, 2025, at the AIDS Foundation of Chicago as Illinois officials gathered to oppose federal budget cuts to services. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

US Rep. Robin Kelly jumps into US Senate race to replace retiring Dick Durbin

By Dan Petrella

May 6, 2025 at 6:35 p.m.

South suburban US Rep. Robin Kelly becomes the second candidate to enter what’s expected to...

A Lebanese man checks a polling list for his name before voting at a polling station during municipal elections in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Battered by war and economic crisis, Lebanon holds first local elections in almost 10 years

By Ali Sharafeddine

May 4, 2025 at 1:34 p.m.

Lebanese voted Sunday in the country’s first local elections in almost a decade, months after...

FILE – Harmeet Dhillon walks through a hallway after talking to reporters at the Republican National Committee winter meeting in Dana Point, Calif., Jan. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Justice Department will switch its focus on voting and prioritize Trump’s elections order, memo says

By Nicholas Riccardi

May 3, 2025 at 2:34 p.m.

A new mission statement for the Justice Department unit that upholds voting rights shows it's...

Skokie Mayor-elect Ann Tennes during a Soul Good Coffee pop-up at Sketchbook Brewing, April 12, 2025. (Audrey Richardson/baiduhai)

20 years of conversations beat money, big names in historic Skokie mayor race

By Jennifer Johnson

May 2, 2025 at 12:35 p.m.

A Skokie candidate with 20 years of networking and service beat a newcomer with big...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives on stage at his campaign headquarters after the Liberal Party won the Canadian election in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals fall short of a majority in Parliament

By Rob Gillies

April 29, 2025 at 4:59 p.m.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals celebrated election victory in a stunning turn of fortune...

Liberal Party's supporters cheer on results at the party election night headquarters in Ottawa, Monday, April 28, 2025. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Mark Carney’s Liberals win election upended by Trump, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation projects

By Rob Gillies

April 28, 2025 at 9:36 p.m.

Canadians will decide Monday whether to extend the Liberal Party’s decade in power or instead...

U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth speaks to reporters on Feb. 11, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Sen. Tammy Duckworth endorses Juliana Stratton for Dick Durbin’s seat

By Rick Pearson

April 28, 2025 at 5:32 p.m.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth endorsed Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton for Senate, giving Stratton backing from a...

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin greets U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth on Aug. 1, 2023, at a ceremony to commemorate the establishment of Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ at 4021 S. State St., where Mamie Till-Mobley once held an open-casket funeral for her brutally murdered son, sparking the Civil Rights Movement. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

With US Sen. Dick Durbin retiring, Illinois’ tradition of upstate-downstate senators is in peril

By Rick Pearson

April 27, 2025 at 7:57 p.m.

Illinois voters have long embraced — whether by choice or chance — a tradition of...

Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton embraces Gov. JB Pritzker on April 25, 2025, after Pritzker endorsed her for U.S. Senate at a rally outside Bright Star Church Chicago. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Gov. JB Pritzker endorses Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton for US Senate

By Rick Pearson

April 26, 2025 at 1:25 p.m.

Gov. JB Pritzker’s endorsement of Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton gives her a key edge in...

Janna Pursell, of Valparaiso, in the black sweater, waits in line during the lunch hour on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, with her husband, daughter, and two grandchildren for the first day of early voting in the basement of the Porter County Administration Building. (Shelley Jones/for Post-Tribune)

Partisan school board bill passes out of Indiana Senate, heads to Gov. Mike Braun’s desk

By Alexandra Kukulka

April 24, 2025 at 1:57 p.m.

The partisan school board bill passed the Senate by one vote and heads to Gov....