Doug Belkin covers higher education and national news out of the Chicago bureau of The Wall Street Journal.

The Democratic Party realizes it needs to regroup after its losses in November. How to do that has become a bone of ...

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin announces he won’t seek another term — setting off a scramble for the rare open seat. And Mayor Brandon ...

Gov. JB Pritzker has made his choice for who he'd like to replace retiring Sen. Dick Durbin: Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton. Why ...

America has become 20 percent poorer in the last four weeks, a Republican donor has said. Ken Griffin, the founder and CEO of ...

And one recent poll found that a majority of U.S. voters, including 54% of Democrats and more than two-thirds of Independents ...

The 21-member board voted to approve the deal during its monthly meeting at Chicago Public Schools’ Loop office Thursday — ...

Juliana Stratton, who has served as Illinois’ lieutenant governor, has been public about her interest in Dick Durbin’s seat.

Allysia Finley is a member of the Journal's Editorial Board.

It’s too late for changes this year, but Park District Supt. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa is open to ideas to end the “Hunger ...

In a fire-breathing exchange on her podcast “I’ve Had It,” Bravo star Jennifer Welch ripped Democratic insider Rahm Emanuel ...

The 80-year-old Democrat told WBEZ in an Illinois exclusive that age was a factor in his not seeking a sixth term in the U.S.