Progress Illinois has ceased operations, effective November 9, 2016. After more than eight years, Progress Illinois has closed up shop. As we previously stated two years ago, our funding has been in peril, which put us on the verge of closure at the end of 2014. Despite our concerted efforts since that time, we have been unable to secure funding to...

Republican Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States, according to the Associated Press. At the time of this posting, Trump has secured 276 of the 270 electoral votes needed to secure the White House. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sent her supporters home before the race was called, with her campaign...

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has asked supporters at her campaign headquarters to go home for the night as Republican Donald Trump is poised to win the White House. Clinton campaign manager John Podesta addressed the crowd, saying "every vote should count" and "several states are too close to call." Trump is about six...

Former one-term Democratic Congressman Brad Schneider has won Illinois' 10th congressional district seat from Republican U.S. Rep. Bob Dold. This year marked the third consecutive matchup between Dold and Schneider in the North Shore's 10th congressional district. The race, which political analysts expected to be a toss-up, was tight throughout...

Illinois' hotly contested and expensive race between incumbent state Rep. Michael McAuliffe (R-Chicago) and Democrat Merry Marwig is largely considered to be a proxy battle waged by GOP Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan. That's how several voters on Chicago's far Northwest Side characterized the 20th House district...