It’s time once again to dive in to another round of quick takes on the people, places and events that were being talked about over the past week: ...

A Democratic candidate who railed against Elon Musk and his spending cuts flipped an ancestrally Republican district in ...

(From left) Jose Alfredo Pacheco Gonzalez and his brother Jose Gregorio Gonzalez hold hands during a news conference at the Resurrection Project in Pilsen, hours after Jose Gregorio Gonzalez was ...

Aurora Mayor-elect John Laesch says he wants to support living wage jobs in the city. Laesch says residents are tired of ...

Stocks plummet after Trump’s sweeping tariffs. And after a long year of negotiations, Chicago teachers have a tentative ...

In local elections Tuesday, 79 percent of the candidates backed by the Illinois Democratic Party won. Several Republican ...

The Democrats scored several key victories in local elections, unseating Republican-backed incumbents in Illinois and Wisconsin.

John Laesch wins the Aurora mayoral race, defeating incumbent Richard Irvin with 52.32% of the vote, promising city unity and ...

See which candidates running for alderperson appear to have been voted into Aurora City Council in Tuesday's consolidated ...

Incumbent Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin has admitted defeat to his challenger, Ald. John Laesch, in the Aurora mayoral election.

In one of the most closely watched mayoral races in the state, Aurora Ald. John Laesch beat two-term incumbent Mayor Richard ...

Irvin has been the western suburb's mayor since 2017. During the runoff campaign, Laesch received strong support from key ...