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Illinois voters stood in long lines on Election Day as they waited to cast their ballot for governor, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, Chicago school board president and more. Polls close at 7 p.m.
Democrat Melissa Bean hopes to return to Congress as she faces Republican Jennifer Davis to fill the 8th District U.S. House seat opened when Rep. Raja Kirshnamoorthi lost the primary for Senate.
The 2026 Illinois election will determine who succeeds Dick Durbin in the U.S. Senate for Illinois, current Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton or former GOP party chairman Don Tracy.
Illinois voters in the 9th District are choosing between Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss and Arlington Heights pastor John Elleson to replace longtime Rep. Jan Schakowsky in Congress.
Longtime U.S. Rep. Danny Davis announced he is retiring, so Democratic State Rep. La Shawn Ford and perennial GOP candidate Chad Koppie are vying to replace him in Illinois' 7th Congressional District.
The 2026 Illinois governor election is under way as voters hit the polls on Election Day, with incumbent JB Pritzker seeking a third term and facing previous opponent Darren Bailey.
With Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia leaving office when the next Congress is sworn in, voters in the Illinois' U.S. House 4th District are choosing between Democrat Patty Garcia and Republican Lupe Castillo on Election Day.
Illinois voters will replace current 2nd District U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly with either Democrat Donna Miller or Republican Mike Noack after Kelly gave up her seat in a failed bid for the U.S. Senate.
Doug DePodesta, former head of the FBI Chicago field office, is suing the U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois, and FBI director, saying he was forced to resign and scapegoated for failed immigration prosecutions.
Former Illinois State Representatives Tom Demmer and Cheri Bustos join CBS News Chicago to discuss the surge in early voting turnout. Bustos said the increase in early voting turnout is a "sign of anger."
If you want to vote in the 2026 Illinois midterm election, you can still register and vote on Election Day.
Durbin, the longest-serving senator in Illinois history, is retiring, but not before he reflects on the highs and the lows during his decades in Washington.
At the supersite off Belmont in Lakeview, some voters waited up to three hours just to get to the front of the line.
A total of nine victims have now been identified in a mass shooting at a Halloween party in Bloomington, Illinois, this past weekend, including a student and cheerleader from North Central College in Naperville who was killed.
Fire officials said most of the cats are believed to have been accounted for, but it's unclear how many cats in total were inside the shelter.
Over the weekend, the State of Illinois expanded the number of applications it is accepting for the Low-Income Energy Assistance Program.
With winter heating bills about to climb, more Illinois families can now apply for help to pay them.
As candidates made their final push for votes, early voters in Chicago and Illinois lined up to cast ballots of the last day of early voting before Election Day for the 2026 midterm election.
Early voting for the Illinois midterm elections in 2026 began in September and continues until Election Day. Find your nearest early voting locations, voting hours and what you need to vote early in Chicago and northern Illinois counties.
One person was killed and another was hospitalized with serious injuries early Sunday morning after a crash on the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway in North Aurora, Illinois.
Ethan Moczulski kicked a 26-yard field goal on the final play to lift Illinois to a 20-17 victory over Maryland on Saturday.
Evanston police said an investigation was carried out by its Special Operations Group and developed information that the suspect was allegedly distributing narcotics in the Evanston and Chicago areas.
Niko Fuentes, 33, died after being shot in the back in Bridgeview in September. The family says they're still waiting on more information from the police.
An elderly couple in Burbank, Illinois, said they lost their life savings after a caller convinced them he was an FBI agent investigating suspicious activity at their bank.
Law enforcement are investigating a possible connection between an armed bank robbery in Wisconsin and an escaped inmate in Tennessee.
