Rahm Emanuel, an American Democratic politician and diplomat who recently served as the U.S. ambassador to Japan during the ...

Imagine Chicago and Illinois without an effective local U.S. attorney’s office over the years. Michael Madigan, we believe, still would be Illinois House speaker. Ed Burke likely would be preening ...

An existing power-sharing agreement reached last month will keep a Republican speaker in power in the state House.

Illinois Democratic voters are feeling helpless and increasingly frustrated with how elected officials are handling the Trump ...

Rahm Emanuel, an Obama-era White House chief of staff and former Chicago mayor, is seriously considering a bid for president ...

It is time for Democrats to stop the gnashing of teeth over Donald Trump. Get with a program that is in sync with real voters ...

Yes, that Rahm. And, yes, for that office — the presidency.

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias discusses the upcoming Real ID deadline, digital drivers licenses, the state ...

Jackson finished second in the Democratic primary to Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, who would go on to lose the 1988 presidential election to George H.W. Bush. But Jackson’s strong results ...

Democrats missed their opportunity to make a serious statement at President Trump's State of the Union address.

When President Donald Trump gave his joint address to Congress last week, he boasted that in his first few weeks back in the White House he had “brought free speech back to America.” ...