Darren Bailey

The GOP nominee for governor gained fame as the voice of opposition on cultural issues — gun rights, abortion — at the statehouse. But he passed few bills of his own.

Illinois State University in Normal will host the first debate between Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker and Republican challenger Darren Bailey.

Illinois candidates for governor talked agriculture policy at an ag sector roundtable Wednesday consisting of more than 100 industry leaders. The session was held in McLean County at Shuler Farms in rural Lexington.

Illinois Republicans gathered for their annual day at the State Fair on Thursday to showcase their candidates in the Nov. 8 election, vowing that the party will “restore Illinois.”

GOP heavyweights haven’t backed Bailey’s campaign directly since he won the nomination, and even his supporters worry about how he’ll secure statewide support.

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.

Race pits conservative challenger against Pritzker’s progressive record

The Sun-Times/WBEZ poll of likely Republican voters shows the downstate Republican state senator with a double-digit lead over the Aurora mayor.

Republican candidate for governor Richard Irvin met with law enforcement at a campaign stop in Bloomington on Friday as new polling shows him trailing party frontrunner Darren Bailey by double digits with less than three weeks before the primary election.

Illinois’ highest court on Tuesday moved Rep. Darren Bailey’s ongoing lawsuit to Sangamon County, effectively ending a Clay County court's role in the…