CHICAGO (AP) — In the neck-and-neck fight to keep control of the U.S. House of Representatives, Democrats need help from the few places where state lawmakers can make 2022 difficult for Republicans.

Democratic lawmakers from Texas fleeing to Illinois earlier this week to try to prevent the Republican-led Legislature from redrawing the state’s congressional districts marked marked the latest ...

cIllinois' Democratic governor JB Pritzker on Tuesday signed off on a new congressional map that could result in the loss of two GOP seats, but the state is an outlier in a trend giving Republicans ...

The new Illinois congressional district map was given an "F" grade by a nonpartisan evaluation group because of the gerrymandering tactics border drawers used to give Democrats a significant advantage ...

The proposed plan for redrawing Illinois' congressional districts is a total mess. State lawmakers were tasked with the once-per-decade redistricting, and the Democrats who control the state ...

Illinois Democrats on Friday unveiled their proposed map of the state’s congressional boundaries for the next decade, a plan aimed at increasing their advantage over Republicans in a downsized ...

Decision day dawned early Friday for members of Congress from Illinois confronted with a new district map drawn by Democrats in an effort to maximize power in Washington, avoid legal challenges and ...

Democrats in the Illinois legislature have finalized a new House map that would pair up three sets of incumbents in a plan designed to give their party an additional seat in the chamber even as the ...