Early voting kicks off Monday for the April 1 municipal election across Illinois. Here's what you need to know. Voters in ...

Voters could get a chance to rank their preferred candidates in upcoming elections, a move some argue is premature and not ...

"I was appointed as clerk of Champaign Township in January. I felt it was important to accept this position because it’s ...

Though municipal and school board races in Illinois are nonpartisan, voters may see many of the same political themes that ...

Brittany Kinser is backed by conservatives in the race for state superintendent. She's challenging incumbent Jill Underly, a Democrat.

"It has been 28 years since the last time there was competition in Champaign Township races. We cannot keep operating like it ...

A right-leaning online publication had postedthe birth dates and home addresses of hundreds of thousands of Illinois ...

The News-Democrat has contacted nearly 280 candidates in contested races in the April 1 election and asked them to complete a ...

"There's a special kind of pain and hurt when your government tells you that should not exist," Rachel Gardner Purdy said.

Like other state legislatures around the country, the Illinois General Assembly in the last couple of years has grappled with ...