ILLINOIS – We’re just days away from the November 5, 2024 general election. Voters will soon decide whether Vice President Kamala Harris (Democrat), former President Donald Trump (Republican) or third ...

Once the last voter casts their ballot in a state and the polls close, the process of revealing the winner begins. That’s when Election Day turns into election night, and each state starts reporting ...

I was looking at one of those vote tracking maps on a website postelection and was struck by the sight of Illinois being a blue state in a Corn Belt sea of red. The presidential race tracking showed ...

A movement in a myriad of rural counties across deep blue states such as Illinois and California to split off and form new states appears to be gaining some steam in the wake of the Nov. 5 election.

Illinois and Indiana, as a whole, are vastly different politically and culturally: a blue state and red state side by side in the center of the nation, separated by a 159-mile border, with divergent ...