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Recently, Real Clear Politics extrapolated demographic trends to project which states are likely to gain or lose U.S. House seats in the reapportionment that will occur after the 2020 Census ...

For those who have paid close attention to President Barack Obama’s national energy policy, Sunday’s decision to deny the already approved permits to finish construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline ...

The court ruling to end extreme political gerrymandering in Wisconsin may have reverberations in neighboring Illinois.As IVN previously reported, the Wisconsin Republican Party was free to draw distri ...

Illinois is one step away from becoming the seventh state to institute automatic voter registration.In August, Governor Bruce Rauner vetoed Illinois Senate Bill 250, an automatic voter regis ...

This election was historic for the movement to break big money’s grip on our political system. On November 8, 2016, voters in South Dakota passed the first-ever statewide Anti-Corruption Act. This bal ...

Last Monday, FairVote released our 2016 general election presidential campaign tracker. This tracker, which has been regularly used this fall by National Popular Vote, looks at where major party candi ...

Illinois US Senator Mark Kirk may be the most vulnerable Republican senator running for re-election in 2016. His contentious relationship with his party highlights the frustration many Illinoisans hav ...

Despite obtaining more than half a million petition signatures to put a redistricting reform amendment on the Illinois ballot in November, legal challenges kept the measure off the ballot. The effects ...

Gerrymandering is nearly as old as America itself, named after James Madison’s vice president and governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry. The advantageous practice of drawing legislative districts ...

A U.S. Supreme Court decision last week will keep an independent candidate in Illinois off the November ballot.The high court denied independent David Gill's request to vacate an order by a lower  ...