In the final minutes of his term, Biden pardoned Kinzinger and other members of the Select Committee on the January 6th Attack. “I am not nervous, I’m not scared, and I will not back down,” Kinzinger said.

As Democrats across deep-blue Illinois on Monday responded to President Donald Trump’s inaugural address with a call “to fight back” against the incoming GOP administration, jubilant Republicans advised the state’s supermajority party to follow the returning president’s lead to “eliminate these woke politics and restore America back to traditional values.

Illinois leaders on Monday said they were bracing for the effects of a still unspecified immigration policy from the administration of new President Donald Trump.

While Illinois is mostly thought of as a blue state these days, close to 2.5 million people in the state voted for Donald Trump. It's no surprise there are a lot of Illinois folks in the capitol or on their way there ahead of Inauguration Day.

Trump’s swearing-in lands on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the national holiday celebrating the civil rights icon always held on the third Monday in January. The confluence of events means Democrats can argue if they want they are not boycotting Trump as much as they have some place better to

The caucus is prioritizing outreach to unhappy Illinois counties, alongside the budget, schools, health care, energy, justice and housing.

Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker delivered their opening salvos Monday against Republican President Donald Trump and his second term in the White House, setting a defiant tone in their defense of immigrant rights and other liberal causes over the next four years.

Democrats in Congress representing the Chicago area looking for ways to limit the scope of President-elect’s Donald Trump’s plans.

The conservative Illinois Review first reported the lawsuit ... Sounds familiar: The GOP leader is just the latest elected official to be sued for allegedly blocking opinions posted on social ...

Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston wants the nearly three-dozen Illinois counties that have voted to secede to consider redder pastures. Among those, two counties that border Vermilion County, Iroquois County to the north and Edgar County to the south.

Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Share Former Republican Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Monday ... But Kinzinger — one of the most outspoken GOP critics of Trump since the returning president’s first ...

Click here for more stories from this year's legislative session. Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston wants the nearly three-dozen Illinois counties that have voted to secede to consider redder ...