Chung was elected to the 91st District — which includes Bartonville, East Peoria and Bloomington — in 2022. Her Facebook page highlights priorities such as women’s rights, lowering costs, strengthening the economy and “expanding access to quality, affordable healthcare for everyone.”

Former President Donald Trump won Tuesday's election for president with 72.8 million votes to Vice President Kamala Harris' 68 million votes, according to unofficial results. Trump did better in more rural areas of Illinois and Harris fared better in urban areas.

State Rep. Kelly Cassidy said there has been a coalition effort to protect trans and reproductive health care access since the Dobbs decision leaked, and Gov. JB Pritzker has been a part of that. Now legislators are looking at Project 2025 and Trump policy proposals to find holes in existing

In 2020, voters rejected a similar plan to sock Illinois’ richest people with higher taxes. That’s when Pritzker’s plan to change the state Constitution to replace the state’s flat 4.95% income individual income tax rate with a sliding rate scale that would make wealthy people pay higher rates.

A handful of polls have shown Harris holding a significant double-digit lead over former President Donald Trump. An ActiVote poll taken between Sept. 3 and Oct. 5 found Harris with a 59% to 41% lead over Trump, an 18-point margin for her. That margin is about on par with Joe Biden's win in Illinois in 2020.

Two first-term Illinois Democrats locked into competitive congressional contests held onto their seats as control of the U.S. House remained up for grabs.

Illinois voters headed to the polls on Nov. 5 to cast ballots in the presidential race as well as a number of down-ballot congressional races.

For just the 11th time in 200 years, a majority of Illinois voters selected in a general election the candidate who ultimately would not become president. Though Democratic candidate Kamala Harris picked up the state’s 19 Electoral College votes,

Illinois residents headed to the polls Tuesday to decide local and national races, which range from US president to state ballot initiatives. Results are coming in.

In Illinois, President-elect Donald Trump accomplished a feat no Republican presidential candidate has in more than 30 years: He turned the state a lighter shade of blue.

Trump won a larger share of the Illinois vote in 2024 than in 2020 or 2016, reflecting a national trend in his third run for the White House.

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