Holcomb wins reelection as Indiana governor: AP
Gov. Eric Holcomb won reelection and President Donald Trump appeared likely to also win the state.
View ArticleMayor Lori Lightfoot confronts activist in defense of Cook County Judge...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot mixed it up with an activist outside a Far North Side polling place over Cook County Judge Michael Toomin, accusing the woman of having her facts wrong and tossing in a shot at the...
View ArticleAP: Durbin wins Illinois U.S. Senate reelection as polls close
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin won reelection to a fifth term on Tuesday, continuing a pattern of Democratic dominance in the state, according to the Associated Press.
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What readers awoke to see on the front page of the Chicago Tribune following each presidential election from 1920 through 2020. To explore the full Chicago Tribune archive, go to newspapers.com.
View ArticleChicago-area voters shatter records as they cast ballots with ‘a sense of...
In Chicago, more than 1 million city residents had voted early, by mail or in person on Election Day
View ArticleFreshman U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood in tight race with Republican Jim...
Rep. Lauren Underwood takes on state Sen. Jim Oberweis, of Oberweis Dairy fame, for the U.S. House seat in Illinois' 14th Congressional District in the north and western suburbs. And in the west and...
View ArticleMarijuana ballot measures ahead in several Chicago suburbs including...
From legal cannabis sales to raising taxes for schools, many voters faced referendum questions on this fall's ballots.
View ArticleSpeaker Madigan dealt blow as Democratic Illinois Supreme Court Justice...
Speaker Madigan tested by billionaires in Illinois Supreme Court Justice Tom Kilbride retention battle.
View ArticleReferendum that would have closed late-night Tai’s Til 4 fails in Chicago’s...
Longtime late night Chicago bar Tai’s Til 4 will get to keep the party going until 4 a.m. in the Lakeview neighborhood, after an effort by neighbors to vote the precinct dry failed Tuesday by a wide...
View ArticleIn Illinois, Biden wins across all broad demographic groups: AP survey of...
AP’s VoteCast is a survey of the American electorate conducted in all 50 states by NORC at the University of Chicago for The Associated Press and Fox News. The survey of an estimated 140,000 registered...
View ArticleHouse Speaker Michael Madigan and federal corruption investigation loom over...
Did Democrats increase their supermajority? Or did the Madigan effect boost Illinois Republicans?
View ArticleJudge Michael Toomin, who presided over high-profile cases from Jussie...
After a decade presiding over the juvenile courts, the county Democratic party declined to endorse Toomin, and he faced a groundswell of progressive activists alleging he had not done right by the...
View ArticleDemocratic Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx fends off Republican former...
Democratic Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx beat Republican challenger Pat O’Brien on Tuesday night, winning four more years to continue enacting her criminal justice reform agenda.
View ArticleMichigan Senate election: Race between incumbent Democrat Gary Peters and...
John James is aiming to be the first Michigan Republican to win a U.S. Senate seat in a quarter-century, while Sen. Gary Peters is eyeing a second term.
View ArticleUS formally exits Paris pact aiming to curb climate change
The United States formally left the Paris Agreement, a global pact forged five years ago to avert the threat of catastrophic climate change
View ArticleDaywatch: Presidential race hinges on Midwest, Pritzker’s tax amendment runs...
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View ArticleState police: Tractor-trailer and passenger car collide, killing 1
One person was killed when a passenger vehicle collided with the rear of a parked tractor-trailer on Interstate 290 Wednesday morning.
View ArticleCasten declares victory over Ives in west suburban congressional race
Rep. Sean Casten declared victory over Jeanne Ives for U.S. House in Illinois' 6th Congressional District in the western suburbs.
View ArticleIllinois election live updates: Here’s where things stand Wednesday morning...
Here are the latest election updates from across the Chicago area and Illinois.
View ArticleElection 2020 live updates: Biden captures slim lead in Wisconsin and...
It's a close battle for the presidency, with all eyes trained on the Upper Midwest, Pennsylvania and Nevada. Georgia and North Carolina not called yet.
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