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Voters in more than 50 Cook County suburbs Tuesday gave the green light to municipal officials to negotiate with other suppliers to obtain cheaper power rates than ComEd charges its residential customers.
Three-term incumbent Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown handily beat back a challenge from Ald. Ricardo Munoz (22nd) for her seat Tuesday.
What has been called one of the greatest economic tools available in Illinois will disappear unless lawmakers take action.
It seems you can't have an election in Illinois, without a few bizarre problems.
Shortly before the polls closed Tuesday, State Sen. Martin Sandoval (D-Chicago) filed a challenge to the results in the 21st District Illinois House race, alleging fraud by election judges.
State Rep. Derrick Smith (D-Chicago), who was arrested on a federal bribery charge last week, easily defeated challenger Tom Swiss on Tuesday in the Democratic race for the 10th District seat in the Illinois House.
Mitt Romney has won the Republican presidential primary in Illinois, easily beating rival Rick Santorum.
A local man says he turned his phone off Monday, after literally getting political robocalls every couple minutes.
Voters are heading to the polls Tuesday morning for an Illinois primary election that experts have said could be "defining" for the Republican presidential race.
The first statewide smoking ban in Indiana was signed into law by Gov. Mitch Daniels Monday.
Chicago election officials say they have 500 different ballots ready to go, and they are hoping that the ballots get used in the primary Tuesday.
U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Monday that the Illinois primary may now be the "defining" contest in the Republican presidential race.
Chicago was recently deemed the most corrupt city in the nation, and deposed Gov. Rod Blagojevich last week became the second consecutive governor in prison for corruption convictions.
A small group of Occupy Chicago activists marched through downtown Chicago Sunday night, in a hastily-called march to protest the arrest of their fellow demonstrators at gatherings in St. Louis and New York City over the weekend.
