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.

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

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

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.

The numbers are in, and they confirm what the long lines snaking through and outside the Morton Civic Center suggested: ...

If the margin of victory narrows further, Texas Democrats could have more fuel to demand greater investment from the national ...

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

The Cook County clerk’s race is an unexpected special election for only a two-year term, following the death earlier this year of Clerk Karen Yarbrough. County Democrats tapped first-term County ...

Democrats looking for another clean sweep of Cook County races Votes will be counted after polls close in Illinois at 7 p.m. Central. See statewide election results here .

After years of believing they were part of Spencer County, some 240 registered voters and about 40 children will have to stay Shelby County residents, according to unofficial election results. Voters ...