Alex Brandon/Associated Press Share A new Illinois poll commissioned by Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker finds President Donald Trump and his cost-cutting czar Elon Musk’s early administration ...

Seven mostly Republican counties here voted last November to consider splitting off from their state, bringing to 33 the number that have voted to investigate leaving Illinois — almost a third of the ...

Illinois and Indiana, as a whole, are vastly different politically and culturally: a blue state and red state side by side in the center of the nation, separated by a 159-mile border, with ...