As the new pope is announced, more than 150 members of Congress are Catholics — the largest single religious denomination in ...

Leaders of all faiths and on both sides of the aisle welcomed the South Side's own Robert Prevost — Pope Leo XIV — as head of ...

After three former Memphis police officers were acquitted Wednesday in the beating death of Tyre Nichols, community and civil rights leaders expressed outrage over another disappointment in the long p ...

The only thing that can bail out blue states and a future Democratic administration from being decimated by their own inability to govern is mass immigration.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Congresswoman Robin Kelly announced she'll run for Dick Durbin's senate seat. This comes after last month, ...

Some of the biggest figures in Illinois politics are preparing to leave the scene, paving the way for a seismic shift in the landscape.

A powerful voice in progressive politics, veteran US Representative Jan Schakowsky revealed she will not seek reelection in ...

Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a staunch progressive Democrat, announced Monday that she will not seek another term in ...

To hear 83-year-old Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) tell it, retiring from Congress is tantamount to giving up on life. The post 83 ...

A former Illinois state legislator and onetime public school teacher, Schakowsky became a congresswoman in 1999. She has been ...