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Harris County in Texas is home to Houston, and has tended to vote blue in the last decade. Republican state lawmakers recently passed bills that target how elections are run there.

Former Reps. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, and Justin Pearson, D-Memphis, want to return to the House. Upcoming meetings could give local officials the chance to send them back.

An emergency room physician from Morton says his victory in an Illinois House primary represents a rebuke against what he calls the Pritzker administration's "authoritarian" protocols regarding COVID-19.

As head of the Normal-based nonprofit Immigration Project, Charlotte Alvarez connects immigrants living in 86 Illinois counties with legal aid and social service organizations as they navigate a convoluted, inefficient system.

Livingston County Prosecutors and law enforcement leaders want the state to boost early childhood block grant funding funding by $50 million. Sheriff Tony…

With the Peoria mayor’s office and five city council seats at stake in Tuesday's municipal election, Thomas Bride expects turnout to be above average in...

At least 20 killed in shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. NPR's Noel King gets the latest details of the mass shooting in Sutherland Spring, Texas, from Nannette Kilbey-Smith, editor of the Wilson County News.

The Peoria City/County Health Department is reporting the area's first COVID-19 related death.

Texas grew more than any other state in the last decade. Tasked with adding two congressional districts, some political watchers say redistricting could be a "blood bath" between the state parties.

Seats critical to the Democrats' calculus for winning back the House were on the line Tuesday night, including many in Pennsylvania. The state's congressional districts were redrawn this spring.