How blue is Illinois, really? Let’s take a look at the certified results of the Nov. 8 election that were released Monday by the Illinois State Board of Elections and crunch some numbers.

No other red candidates have finished within a 10% gap of a blue majority for Illinois in a presidential election in the ...

On all borders, blue Illinois is surrounded by red — all five adjacent states were carried by Donald Trump, not an insignificant trend given how the presidential race unfolded on election night.

As Illinois population shifts toward urban areas, the state’s politics lean toward Democrats as rural Republicans in IL get angrier over their representation. Blue Illinois gets bluer as red ...

Illinois 2020 election results. The state has 20 electoral votes at stake in the presidential race. ... *Counties are colored red or blue when the % expected vote reporting reaches a set threshold.

In most of the rest of the country, including Illinois, the outcome of the race is effectively predetermined. However, Illinois’ status as a blue state is an […] Skip to content ...

And yet, in the state’s more recent political past, Democrats are the ones with the upper hand as blue Illinois gets bluer, and red Illinois gets redder – and angrier that they don’t have a ...

The Red (or Blue?) Chicago Suburbs. The counties surrounding Chicago have been reliably Republican for most of the last century. But that could be shifting as demographics change and political ...

Since just before the lockdowns in February 2020 into May of this year, the Wall Street Journal finds that red states added a net 341,000 new jobs, while blue states lost a combined 1.3 million ...

This century, the closest Illinois has ever come to voting red in a presidential election was in 2004 when state voters sided with Democratic challenger John Kerry, 54.8% to 44.5%, over Republican ...