Gov. JB Pritzker began his third campaign for governor on Thursday, but much of the buzz around his 2026 campaign announcement focused on 2028.

Gov. JB Pritzker will run for a third term as governor. He’s officially making the reelection announcement Thursday in a four-stop tour that spans Chicago, Rockford, Peoria and Springfield.

Joe Biden’s name wasn’t on the ballot, but history will likely remember Vice President Kamala Harris’ resounding defeat as his loss, too

Early data suggests that Republican Donald Trump may benefit from some of the shifts more than Democrat Kamala Harris. And the Republican former president may have also benefited from frustrated voters' focus on the economy.

Here are three races to keep an eye in Will County on as the votes roll in on Tuesday evening.

Voters said the economy and immigration are the top issues facing the country, but the future of democracy was also a leading motivator for many Americans casting a ballot in Tuesday’s presidential election

The final day of voting in the 2024 presidential election has arrived with tens of millions of Americans having already cast their ballots

Kamala Harris says Donald Trump’s comment that he would protect women whether they “like it or not” shows that the Republican presidential nominee does not understand women’s rights to make decisions about their own lives

Kamala Harris stood before an overflowing crowd near the White House on Tuesday and promised Americans she would fight for them every day as she urged voters to reject Donald Trump’s efforts to sow division and fear, declaring, “It doesn’t have to be this way.”

Progressive Democrats are warning Kamala Harris that she risks losing the support of a small, but significant portion of her political base unless she changes her campaign’s closing message — and its messengers — immediately

Kamala Harris went to a Philadelphia suburb for a CNN town hall to take questions from undecided voters

Vice President Kamala Harris says that comments praising Adolf Hitler reportedly made by Donald Trump to his longest-serving chief of staff offer a window into who the former president “really is.”

When Baier kept talking as Harris tried to respond to his challenges on immigration, Harris said: "May I please finish? ... You have to let me finish, please.”

The rulings are victories for Democrats, liberal voting rights groups and some legal experts who have raised concerns that Donald Trump’s allies could refuse to certify the results

The same analysis says former President Trump's ideas could heap another $7.5 trillion onto the debt and possibly as much as $15.2 trillion

Vice President Kamala Harris opened a media blitz by the Democratic ticket on Sunday with a conversation on the popular “Call Her Daddy” podcast

Tim Walz and JD Vance are criticizing each other’s running mates in a vice presidential debate that opened with a discussion of burgeoning domestic and international troubles

For the first time since she ascended to the top of the Democratic ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris is set to give a speech focused squarely on abortion rights

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are making a beeline for swing states that they hope to flip in their favor this year,

Taylor Swift, one of the music industry’s biggest stars, endorsed Kamala Harris for president shortly after the debate ended on Tuesday night

Sparring on politics and personality, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump showcased their starkly different visions for the country as they met for the first time Tuesday for perhaps their only debate before November’s presidential election

Vice President Kamala Harris plans a four-day campaign trip through major swing states after the Democrat’s debate Tuesday with Republican Donald Trump

Vice President Kamala Harris is about to propose a tenfold increase in federal tax incentives for small business startup expenses, from $5,000 to $50,000, hoping it will help spur a record 25 million new small business applications

The theme of the week at the Democratic National Convention was freedom, one local delegate said. “It’s been an amazing week,” Lee County Democrats member Sarah Bingaman said. “It’s been magnificent, frankly.”

How Kamala Harris won loyal supporters in Illinois

Harris' vision for the country has leaned heavily on Biden plans, to the point of not rewriting those plans even after Biden dropped out

Former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger is now a member of Republicans for Harris, a group that includes dozens of notable former GOP officeholders who now openly oppose the reelection of Donald Trump

Kamala Harris has summoned Americans to reject political divisions and instead chart what she called a “new way forward.”

The Democratic National Convention’s third night showcased a familiar former president in Bill Clinton and introduced more Americans to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz accepted his party’s nomination for vice president Wednesday night, using his Democratic National Convention address to thank the packed arena for “bringing the joy” to an election

In the more than seven years since he declared his candidacy for governor, JB Pritzker has not shied away from pouring cash into not only his own election bids but campaigns up and down the ballot

Warning of a difficult fight ahead, former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have called on the nation to embrace Kamala Harris in urgent messages to the Democratic National Convention that were at times both hopeful and ominous

Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama are returning to the city they once called home to take the stage in support of Harris’ nomination

President Joe Biden has delivered his valedictory address to the Democratic National Convention, saying, “I gave my best to you.”

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who is among the speakers expected to take the stage on the convention’s opening night, said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that the city was prepared for the thousands of activists expected to participate in protests around the DNC

Illinois Republicans say they are still as united about the upcoming election as they were at their national convention in Milwaukee last month, despite surge of enthusiasm for the Democrats’ new presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Vice President Kamala Harris is promoting a broad set of economic proposals that would offer new tax breaks and lower the cost of living for Americans

Donald Trump says he thinks he’s “entitled to personal attacks” on his Democratic rival

Taxpayers are expected to save billions after the Biden administration inked deals with pharmaceutical companies to knock down the list prices for 10 of Medicare’s costliest drugs

Democrats gathered in Springfield Wednesday for their annual rally at the Illinois State Fair amid a surge of enthusiasm and a renewed sense of optimism about their chances of retaining the White House in November.

A review of Harris' work on immigration reveals a record that is more nuanced than the one presented by her critics or allies

Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to outmaneuver former President Donald Trump and address old vulnerabilities on her policy positions as she starts to fill in how she would govern if elected in November

If nothing else, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris agree on one thing, at least: Both say they want to eliminate federal taxes on workers’ tips

Democrats are playing up their sunnier outlook, promoting the idea that voters can be inspired to support someone and not just cast their ballot against the other side

Republicans are questioning Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s characterization of his time in uniform and his departure from military service

Gov. Tim Walz and his fellow Democrats have enacted big changes in the two years that they’ve had full control of the Minnesota Legislature, from expansions of abortion and LGBTQ+ rights to initiatives aimed at making life easier for families

Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will spend their first full day as running mates on Wednesday rallying Democrats across the Midwest

Kamala Harris’ whirlwind process to select Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate can be summed up in a word: weird

Democratic delegates have selected Vice President Kamala Harris to be the party’s presidential nominee

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has announced raising $310 million last month