Illinois has 17 congressional districts – of which all but four include at least part of the greater Chicago area.

The dozen incumbent Democrats who represent Chicago and its suburbs in Congress head into the Nov. 5 election with a sizable ...

Democratic Rep. Jonathan Jackson won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Illinois on Tuesday. Jackson first won the seat in 2022 after then-Rep. Bobby Rush decided to retire after 15 terms in ...

Corporations themselves cannot donate to candidates at the federal level but federal candidates can get contributions from corporate PACs, employees and owners as well as their immediate families. At ...

Jonathan Jackson won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Illinois on Tuesday. Jackson first won the seat in 2022 ...

Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has been named chair of the board of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority). The appointment was announced by U.S. Secretary of Commerce ...

Illinois Congressman Bobby Rush, said ahead of its passage. In 2020, following the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, the House passed an earlier iteration of the bill ...

A photograph of a crowd in Texas watching an execution in 1893 The US House of Representatives has overwhelming voted to make lynching a federal hate crime in the country. The move comes over 100 ...

In 1974-75 Bobby Rush, former Illinois Black Panther Party's Deputy Minister ... This was my first brush with electoral work. Bobby is now of course congressman from the first congressional district ...

Happy “Ohi Day,” Illinois. Today commemorates the day Greece said no, or “ohi,” to fascist Italian dictator Benito ...

A Democratic lawmaker introduced new legislation Tuesday that would force the government to reveal decades-old FBI files about domestic spying on civil rights and peace activists, saying a full ...