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.”

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.

President-Elect Donald Trump may have lost Illinois, but the margin he lost by was the best performance for a Republican presidential candidate in decades. On Monday, with 98 percent of precincts reporting,

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.

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.

One of three non-binding advisory questions on Illinois ballots is a measure to penalize political candidates for election interference.

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.

When Donald Trump returns to the White House in January, some Illinois lawmakers are looking at actions they think they should take to protect the state’s progress on issues like abortion and immigration.

The wait time for phone calls to Planned Parenthood of Illinois also doubled in the days immediately after the election.

Past and present Illinois politicians have figured prominently in wiretapped conversations introduced by prosecutors at the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and codefendant Michael McClain.

The billionaire governor, whose family is deeply involved in the transgender movement, posted the tweet to mark Transgender Awareness Week.

Voters in the metro-east county made it the 33rd to approve the symbolic measure to form a new state without Cook County.