Typically, Democrats win the state by at least 10 percent. In the 2024 election though, Harris won by only around 4 percent.

Illinois’ 19 electoral votes went to President Joe Biden in 2020 when he ran against Donald Trump, but not every county voted blue. Here is a county-by-county map of how the state voted in the last ...

The citizens of seven additional Illinois counties have voted to consider splitting from Chicago and Cook County and forming ...

Voters in six Illinois counties will be asked if they should break away from Illinois and form a new state. The non-binding ...

On Nov. 5, 2024, voters chose not just their next president and vice president, but representatives in Congress, a new Cook County state's Attorney, and the very first elected Chicago school board.

Eric Henderson is Managing Editor, Midwest for CBSNews.com. He has won three Emmy Awards, an Eric Sevareid Award and two Edward R. Murrow Awards.

Sitting Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx ... Like all but two U.S. states, Illinois has a winner-take-all system, in which all the state's electoral votes to go to the presidential candidate ...

This proposition would allow top-four primary elections and ranked-choice voting in general elections for House, Senate, ...

What makes Illinois so corrupt ... reviews petition signatures at the George W. Dunne Cook County Office Building in December. Candidates frequently challenge their opponents’ paperwork in ...

Bob Fioretti in the race to replace Cook County ... courts in Illinois’ First District. Fioretti is a former Chicago alderman who served until May 2015 after his ward’s boundaries were redrawn.

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris go head-to-head at the ballot boxes across America today, ...