Republican David Friess is looking to unseat incumbent Rep. Jerry Costello (D-Smithton) in 116th House District race.

Doug Jameson sees Gov. Bruce Rauner’s push for a balanced budget as a win-win proposition.

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner is publicly preaching party unity on the campaign trail. But behind the scenes, Rauner is quietly leading an effort to purge conservatives from the Illinois Republican State Central Committee, which governs the party and has elections this month.

Edwardsville Mayor Hal Patton wants voters to fully understand what his third-party run for the Senate seat in the 56th District is truly meant to represent.

Dwight Kay wonders where J.B. Pritzker has been in recently given what he sees as his outdated politics.

Watchdogs looks into what happened with Michael Parkinson, who is a Granite City Police Officer and a member of the Madison County Board.

Illinois Republican Party Chairman and Cook County Commissioner Timothy O. Schneider (R-Bartlett) is president of an Elgin car wash that owes $21,448 in overdue property taxes from 2016, according to the Cook County Treasurer.

Doug Jameson fails to see the logic behind a proposal for changing Illinois’ income tax system.

Tanya Hildenbrand doesn’t mince words when it comes to the need for Republican voters to come together behind Gov. Bruce Rauner if they hope to preserve Illinois as they know it.

Doug Jameson argues a new Comprehensive Annual Financial Report showing Illinois lost $9.9 billion in net worth in fiscal 2017 demonstrates just how much the state has lost its way.

Dwight Kay isn’t sure where all the money is going that’s being collected from the 32 percent income tax hike imposed as part of the state budget deal last year, but he has a suspicion.

A video from Right for Cahokia posted to YouTube blasts East St. Louis political leaders as “pathetic” and their system of governance as “plantation.”

Rep. C.D. Davidsmeyer (R-Jacksonville) wanted the details from the Illinois Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability (CGFA).

The current deficit crisis is one factor that motivated Republican Tonya Hildenbrand of Belleville to seek the seat being vacated by Sen. James Clayborne (D-Belleville) in the 57th District.

Gov. Bruce Rauner raised $215 per vote cast for him in the gubernatorial primary race last week compared to Rep. Jeanne Ives' $12 for vote, according to the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform.

After her decisive victory in the GOP primary in the 57th Senate District, Tanya Hildenbrand is looking ahead to November's election and her run to claim the seat being vacated by Sen. James Clayborne (D-Belleville).

In a state already burdened with some of the highest taxes in the nation, Madison County voters Tuesday night rejected a proposal to raise local sales taxes.

Dwight Kay is convinced he has a message every voter in November's general election can relate to. “A big part of what we’ll be talking about will be pocketbook issues,” Kay told the Metro East Sun.

Tanya Hildenbrand won the GOP primary in Senate District 57 by a landslide over radio talk show host Bob Romanik, garnering approximately 65 percent of the vote to Romanik's 35 percent.

Jonas Petty didn’t get the result he wanted in Tuesday’s Republican primary showdown against Rep. C.D. Davidsmeyer (R-Jacksonville) in the 100th House District, but the Pittsfield businessman walked away convinced he stood up for the right issues.