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10+ hour, 33+ min ago  (1749+ words) Former Representative Melissa Bean, a moderate Democrat, and Junaid Ahmed, a progressive, are running in a House primary in suburban Chicago that has been animated by disagreements about Israel. They are seeking to replace Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat running…...

9+ hour, 34+ min ago  (1740+ words) Voters on the South Side of Chicago and in the city's suburbs are considering sending Jesse L. Jackson Jr. back to Congress a decade after he was convicted in a corruption scandal. Democratic Primary race called Republican Primary race called Mike…...

7+ hour, 30+ min ago  (1210+ words) Democratic voters itching for a new direction during the 2026 primary season took advantage of a rare opportunity to significantly reshape the national party by backing a new generation of faces in the March 17 Illinois primary. The marquee race in that…...

16+ hour, 10+ min ago  (547+ words) Illinois Democrats picked their nominees for four open House seats on Tuesday, with one former member taking a step toward returning to the chamber and another denied a comeback. And in an election where the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's…...

11+ hour, 44+ min ago  (1161+ words) Gov. JB Pritzker, who is widely seen as a potential 2028 presidential candidate, spent several minutes denouncing Trump, and then just a couple of sentences discussing his likely 2026 Republican opponent for governor. When immigration agents first began a surge of arrests…...

16+ hour, 37+ min ago  (829+ words) Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss led in early results in the battle to become the Democratic nominee to succeed retiring U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky minutes after polls closed in the district, which stretches from the North Side to Wilmette to Crystal Lake....

15+ hour, 59+ min ago  (958+ words) The city of Aurora is now gearing up for a special census that has faced various delays, although the start date is still uncertain. Aurora previously sought a recount after the 2020 decennial census showed the city had a population of…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (527+ words) The northern lights may be seen in northern U.S. states and Canada on Wednesday, March 18, through Thursday, March 19, after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a geomagnetic storm watch suggesting that G3-class geomagnetic storms are possible. According to SpaceWeather....

11+ hour, 45+ min ago  (654+ words) It is Election Day in Illinois and the Midwest state's slate of primary election races features messy, made-for-TV moments that could forecast electoral trends later this year. Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson's son, Jesse Jackson Jr.,is back on the…...

17+ hour, 49+ min ago  (599+ words) Women are significantly outvoting men so far in Chicago, with 140,744 ballots cast. Men have cast 109,019 ballots in the primary. (About 600 voters are non-binary or did not declare a gender, a voting official said. By midday in Chicago, more than 250,000 ballots…...