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.

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 winner of the 2024 U.S. presidential election has been determined, with President-elect Donald Trump defeating Vice ...

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

She then moved back to Illinois, where she grew up ... but was focused on a problem that he said only really existed in Cook County. “All those people that were languishing in the court system ...

If Democratic candidate Shomari Figures wins a congressional race in Alabama in the Nov. 5 U.S. election, the ...

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

88% of Illinois businesses are small businesses. The same holds true for the 18th District, in that a vast majority of businesses are small businesses. Small businesses and new businesses are ...

From control of Congress to changes to state constitutions, voters across the U.S. will pick more than just a new president.