He's a longshot, but if he puts policies to his desire to stop school closings and move money from rich to poor neighborhoods, he'll make it interesting even if it's not close. Read more
Jeanne Ives pushed the incumbent to the brink last night. Rauner won with an eerily similar margin to his 2014 primary victory, but he lost most of the collar counties and saw his margin in Cook County cut by more than half. Read more
From the governor to a seven-term Democratic House member to the powerful Cook County Assessor to the president of Cook County itself, today brings a lot of March madness. Read more
The main suspect allegedly tipped off the ATF to himself, and his prior brushes with notoriety involve the 'Dr. Phil' show and a proposal to build a border wall in the style of the Great Wall of China. Read more
From a look inside a high school that's half immigrants to the legacy of Charlie Trotter, some of the magazine's best writing from 2017 is here. Read more
