Longtime U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky will announce whether she plans to seek reelection in less than two weeks, she wrote Wednesday in a social media post.

Dick Durbin, whose tenure as one of Illinois’ longest-serving U.S. senators has also been a testament to the power of seniority in the chamber, announced Wednesday he would not seek a sixth term next year, setting up a scramble among potential successors vying for a politically coveted six-year term.

Following Sen. Dick Durbin’s decision, Illinois officeholders are looking at the potential risks and rewards of seeking a coveted US Senate seat.

Jurors on Wednesday told the judge overseeing the corruption trial of state Sen. Emil Jones III that they may be approaching a deadlock in their deliberations.

Incumbent Felicia Brown won Glenwood’s third village trustee seat Tuesday after a Cook County clerk coin toss broke a tie vote.

After focusing on a handful of Northwest Side neighborhoods on the City Council, Caros Ramirez-Rosa now manages a $600 million budget, 615 parks, and high stakes events.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday lashed out at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, saying the Ukrainian leader is prolonging the “killing field” after he pushed back on ceding Crimea to Russia as part of a potential peace plan.

The Trump administration on Wednesday continued to resist a federal judge’s orders to produce information about the steps it has taken, if any, to return a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

On Wednesday, Random House announced that it would publish a hardcover book in July combining the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, followed in November by a hardcover edition of the Federalist Papers.