Four-term west suburban Democratic Congresswoman Lauren Underwood’s decision to not run to succeed Dick Durbin in the Senate ...

US Rep. Robin Kelly said colleague Rep. Jonathan Jackson was endorsing her in US Senate race but Jackson’s camp later said he ...

With Rep. Lauren Underwood's decision to stay out, major candidates in the race to succeed Sen. Dick Durbin include Lt. Gov.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker holds up the hand of Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton on Friday outside a church in Stratton’s Bronzeville ...

In a social media statement,Underwood said her energy is better spent helping her party regain control of the House of ...

Yumeka Brown, Matteson village clerk and a commissioner with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, has formed an ...

Democratic Rep. Lauren Underwood announced she will not join the race for U.S. Senate in Illinois. She says her focus is instead to help Democrats win back control of the House. ABC7 Chicago is now ...

Democrat Yasmeen Bankole, a Hanover Park trustee and staffer to Senator Durbin, has announced her bid for Congress. The ...

It was Douglas, who lost election to a fourth term in 1966, who once mistakenly called him “Dick,” a nickname Durbin adopted. Durbin earned a law degree from Georgetown and worked as legal ...

A growing number of Democrats are publicly second-guessing their party’s handling of the last election, acknowledging that ...

Illinois will have its first new senator in a decade after voters select someone to succeed U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin. Here’s a look at candidates in the race.