Former Peoria Republican Congressman Ray LaHood joins Democrat and ex-Commerce Secretary Bill Daley to launch an effort to ...

Former Illinois Republican Party Chair Don Tracy is reportedly considering running for either governor or Senate and is ...

Republicans are hoping to build on President Donald Trump’s gains in the Land of Lincoln. Tracy said Trump got 45% of the ...

As the Illinois GOP pledged allegiance to President Donald Trump, serious problems remain for the political party that has minimal power in Springfield.

They say the current legislative redistricting process leads to overrepresentation of Democrats and few competitive ...

Redistricting was a large focus at an annual gathering of the state party’s central committee and the Republican County Chair ...

Three years ago, the Cook County Republican Party, represented by a legal group founded by and associated with the right-leaning Illinois Policy Institute, went to federal court in an unsuccessful ...

In local elections Tuesday, 79 percent of the candidates backed by the Illinois Democratic Party won. Several Republican mayors were unseated, pointing to problems for the GOP in the suburbs.

“We’ve got to embrace early voting and voting by mail,” Tracy said at the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee & County Chairmen’s Association breakfast in August.

Republicans, Illinois, they felt as if they were kind of shielded from what was going on in the larger context of the GOP in Washington and in other parts of the country.

With fissures dividing the national Republican Party as it searches for direction and a message after the presidency of Donald Trump, the Illinois GOP is waging its own, lower profile quest for ...

The new Illinois Republican Party chairman, Don Tracy of Springfield, has a big job in front of him. Before the Illinois GOP can start winning statewide elections again, he's got to pull the ...