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

La’Mont Raymond Williams, Miquel Lewis, Therese Boyle and Lanetta M. Thomas fought to represent District 9, which includes ...

For the first time in Chicago history, voters this year will get to choose some of the members of the Chicago Board of ...

Chicago has registered a 59% voter turnout so far on Election Day. The age demographics of those voters are: As of 5:30 p.m., ...

Havencrest Castle is a 63-room behemoth that looks like it was designed by a committee of Disney Imagineers, Victorian ...

Perched atop a bluff overlooking the Rock River, Stronghold Castle is the closest thing Illinois has to Hogwarts. This ...

The Washington State women's basketball team has yet to play in the West Coast Conference. Judging by what the WCC coaches anticipate, though, the Cougars will challenge for the conference ...

The Cougar women move to the WCC, and their new league is expecting them to compete for the title and compete in the ...

Trevon Bosley will be one of 50,000 people at the starting line of the TCS New York City Marathon on Sunday. But the ...

More than 140 years ago, the industrialist George Pullman build a neighborhood around his luxury sleeper train car factory near Lake Calumet on the far South Side of Chicago to give his employees ...

Robin Kelley in Illinois is putting the finishing touches ... Both the Indiana Dunes and Pullman saw huge jumps in visitation after the National Park designation, as it puts it more on the map ...