Illinois Republicans have no bench of experienced prospects to speak of. Because of extreme gerrymandering, the GOP has few ...

The school's students and staff expressed shock and excitement following the recent election of the first-ever American pope.

The contrast between President Donald Trump and Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV couldn’t be more stark, politically, personally or ...

The Illinois governor has not announced whether he will seek a third term in Springfield next year, but he also has not said ...

DuPage County Board District 5 reps, Sadia Covert and Dawn DeSart, both from Naperville, confirmed they’re running for ...

State Sen. Robert Peters, of Chicago, announced his campaign for a U.S. House seat representing parts of the city’s South ...

Pope Leo XIV's childhood home in Dolton, Illinois, was listed for sale on May 5 before being taken off the market just days later. Find out more.

One Villanova professor attributed Leo’s election to what he called the “Trump effect,” while a conservative Catholic ...

Chicagoans celebrated the historic election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the U.S. and a Chicago native, with joy and ...

Across Chicago, Sunday churchgoers returned to pews still stunned and elated about the election of a native of the city’s South Side to the papacy.

Pope Leo XIV voted in Democratic primaries in 2008 and 2010 and in three Republican primaries in the years that followed, ...

During a press conference with American cardinals on Friday, Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, said he did not think the ...