G.H. Merritt explains that under the U.S. Constitution, you need approval from both the state legislature and Congress for ...

The leader of the Indiana House wants to negotiate with Illinois over the possibility of Indiana absorbing the 33 Illinois counties that have voted in the past five years to separate from Chicago ...

A lawsuit has been filed with the Illinois Supreme Court in an effort to throw out the current legislative maps that the plaintiffs said are the result of extreme gerrymandering. The complaint, filed ...

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois House Republicans are asking the state's highest court to invalidate legislative maps they say are illegally gerrymandered to give Democrats a controlling supermajority of ...

House Republican Leader Tony McCombie speaks at a news conference on Tuesday about the House GOP’s lawsuit against Illinois’ legislative maps.

The Princeton Gerrymandering Project, which assesses legislative maps around the country on several metrics, gave the current Illinois House map an “F” grade for its compactness metric.

The Princeton Gerrymandering Project, which assesses legislative maps around the country on several metrics, gave the current Illinois House map an “F” grade for its compactness metric.

Republicans are targeting this lawsuit to state courts after previously failing to block the maps in federal court. New data and a key expert witness, they say, make their state case more likely to ...

(AP) — The Republican leader of the Illinois House and five voters on Tuesday filed a lawsuit asking the state Supreme Court to throw out the legislative district map as unconstitutionally drawn ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Republican leader of the Illinois House and five voters on Tuesday filed a lawsuit asking the ...