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If either Sergio Acosta or April Perry are picked to be the next U.S. attorney based in Chicago, it will be the first time a non-white male has held the job.

According to Everytown for Gun Safety, there already have been at least 58 unintentional shootings by children in 2023.

The Senate is taking the first steps toward repealing two measures that give open-ended approval for military action in Iraq

CHICAGO — Paul Vallas’ Facebook account liked a series of comments that attacked Democrats, referred to Chicago as a “hell hole” and “S---cago” and labeled Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker “the king of full term abortion,” a Chicago Tribune review of his social media found.

Illinois Democrats Sen. Dick Durbin and Rep. Mike Quigley - have been pushing for the funds to extend the CTA’s Red Line on the South Side.

Democrats recently celebrated the 100th judicial confirmation of Joe Biden’s presidency and are clamoring for more

If any issue can bring notoriously polarized Washington together across party lines — and should — it is the need to protect America’s children from such perils as those to be found in abundance on the internet.

The office of Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman says he has checked himself into the hospital for clinical depression

Democrats in Congress are increasingly voicing their concerns over Netanyahu’s controversial judicial overhaul plan.

After a series of statements by US administration spokespeople criticizing the Israeli government's policy to carry out a coup against the judiciary, more and more US lawmakers are speaking up and warning that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is putting his interest above Israel's. Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dick…

The Bureau of Prisons is shutting down a unit at its newest penitentiary in Illinois, following an investigation by NPR and The Marshall Project that exposed it was rife with violence and abuse.