When Brian Dahl joined the Kane County Board in July 2015, it was to fill a vacancy created by a midterm departure of a fellow Democrat. With his victory Tuesday, Dahl now has four years to make the District 6 seat his own. Unofficial results show D...

Veteran Lake County Recorder of Deeds Mary Ellen Vanderventer easily won a new 4-year term Tuesday. Vanderventer, a Democrat from Waukegan, was ahead of Libertyville Republican Robert Haraden 163,372 to 118,851, unofficial results showed. Vanderven...

Lake County Board member Aaron Lawlor coasted to re-election Tuesday night. Lawlor, a Vernon Hills Republican, thumped first-time Democratic candidate Gerri Songer of Hawthorn Woods 7,763 to 6,130 in the race for the 18th District seat, unofficial r...

Daily Herald staff report Heated congressional races are heading full steam toward Tuesday's election, including the 10th District's high-profile three-peat and the battle to fill the 8th District seat being vacated by Tammy Duckworth as she runs fo...

Now this is more like it. The Silver and Black against the Orange Crush for the division lead. Well, at least the current Raiders and Broncos going head to head for first place in the AFC West. One of pro sports' most storied, intense (yeah, you can...

CHICAGO (AP) - The race for comptroller, usually a low-profile contest coinciding with Illinois' gubernatorial campaigns, is in the spotlight during a presidential year with a big money special election offering Democrats an unusual chance to oust R...

CHICAGO (AP) - The World Series is hardly the only historic contest preoccupying the owners of the Chicago Cubs this fall. The wealthy Ricketts family - Joe and Marlene, and their adult children Pete, Tom, Todd and Laura - also are big players in th...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk and Democratic U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth are facing off in their first televised debate Thursday in what's considered a crucial race that could determine which party controls the Senate. The fi...

SPRINGFIELD - In a debate packed with testy exchanges, Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk ribbed Democratic U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth's family history of military service and she criticized him for previous remarks he made against the president, as the ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Event planner Beth Bernstein decided she had had enough with Donald Trump after his 2005 hot-mic boasts about groping women came to light earlier this month. She removed photos of weddings she had thrown at a Trump hotel in Chicago f...