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Property rights are fundamental in America – or at least they are supposed to be.Yet each year, prosecutors and law enforcement agencies seize hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of cars, homes, ca ...

Update October 3, 2017: The full transcript has been released for the oral argument in Gill v. Whitford. Check out the transcript below. The Supreme Court heard oral argument Tuesday in Gill v. W ...

Party politics is killing America and Illinois. It is not enough to just elect different people into a bad system. We have to fundamentally change politics, and that starts with real open primaries.Th ...

With Illinois remaining in political and budgetary gridlock, the governor may soon face challenges from within his own party.Governor Bruce Rauner, a Republican elected in 2014, may sign Illinois Hous ...

President Donald Trump’s quest for uncovering election fraud may find new life in Illinois.After winning the 2016 election Trump charged that "millions" of people cast illegal votes.In May, ...

"A cancer on our democracy."Those are the words U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar used to describe the two-party gerrymandering scheme going on in Maryland and across the country.A US district ...

ILLINOIS - Political reform in Illinois comes slowly, but one group is renewing the effort to put redistricting back in the hands of the people.After each decennial census, a state’s district maps are ...

There is big news for the Libertarian Party: It can add one more state where it has official party status and ballot access for the 2018 midterms.Ballot Access News reported Monday that the LP's ...

A survey of attendees at the 2017 People’s Summit in Chicago -- conducted by members of Independent Voting’s national network -- probed: Whether concern over the process by which the 2016 presidentia ...

For the first time in history, a state might file for bankruptcy protection.That's what happens when you operate three years without a budget.Illinois has a full-fledged financial crisis on its hands. ...