When Donald Trump returns to the White House in January, some Illinois lawmakers are looking at actions they think they should take to protect the state’s progress on issues like abortion and immigration.

Illinois voters headed to the polls on Nov. 5 to cast ballots in the presidential race as well as a number of down-ballot congressional races.

Former President Donald Trump won Tuesday's election for president with 72.8 million votes to Vice President Kamala Harris' 68 million votes, according to unofficial results. Trump did better in more rural areas of Illinois and Harris fared better in urban areas.

Two first-term Illinois Democrats locked into competitive congressional contests held onto their seats as control of the U.S. House remained up for grabs.

Trump won a larger share of the Illinois vote in 2024 than in 2020 or 2016, reflecting a national trend in his third run for the White House.

President-Elect Donald Trump may have lost Illinois, but the margin he lost by was the best performance for a Republican presidential candidate in decades. On Monday, with 98 percent of precincts reporting,

More than 400 progressive community members, activists and elected officials gathered in Albany Park Saturday to discuss how a second Trump term will impact Illinois and Chicago.

The political battle over the future of EVs is playing out in parts of the St. Louis area and beyond. President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to cut EV funding and end what he calls the “EV mandate” on day one of his upcoming presidency.

The wait time for phone calls to Planned Parenthood of Illinois also doubled in the days immediately after the election.

Past and present Illinois politicians have figured prominently in wiretapped conversations introduced by prosecutors at the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and codefendant Michael McClain.

The billionaire governor, whose family is deeply involved in the transgender movement, posted the tweet to mark Transgender Awareness Week.

Voters in the metro-east county made it the 33rd to approve the symbolic measure to form a new state without Cook County.