Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or quaint nicknames: Old Glory, ...

Ahead of the 2025 Consolidated Election, Illinoisans can vote early for key roles in their local government. The full list of ...

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias on Thursday announced that of the nearly 385,000 votes his office received ...

The News-Democrat has contacted nearly 280 candidates in contested races in the April 1 election and asked them to complete a ...

The 2025 local elections are the second time that Illinois Democrats are getting involved in nonpartisan races. After ...

That design depicts Abraham Lincoln’s silhouette and the state of Illinois on a dark blue background. A flag designed for the ...

State lawmakers could pass a plan this session to expand the automatic voter registration process to help even more people ...

The redesign contest included 10 new designs, two former state flags and the current one. The current flag received over ...

There’s another push in Springfield to tax motorists by the mile. Illinoisans already pay the second-highest gas taxes in the ...

Illinois residents voted to keep the current state flag, with it receiving more votes than the next five alternatives ...