A 64-year-old Army veteran has been charged in federal court with making a threatening communication against an Illinois congressman. Randall E. Tarr, of Rochester, Illinois, is accused of leaving a voicemail message at U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis‘ office on Nov. 25 threatening to shoot him. Tarr was released on his own recognizance Friday. Contacted at his home Thursday, Tarr said…

The House approved legislation Wednesday to better protect the country’s elections from foreign interference, the third major bill the Democratic-controlled chamber has passed this year addressing problems that arose in the 2016 presidential election. The 227-181 vote comes as lawmakers pursue an impeachment inquiry centered on allegations that President Donald Trump improperly solicited election help from Ukraine ahead of the...

The No. 2 Republican in the U.S. House has a hopeful message for the beleaguered Illinois GOP.

Now that the government is back open, some of the Illinois Democrats in Congress have invited guests they’re hoping will keep the effects of the shutdown front-and-center.

U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis was confronted by a passenger on a plane who questioned the Illinois congressman over his first class seat during a government shutdown, according to recently released video footage.

NBC 5’s Marion Brooks discusses her latest report: the Survivors Project.

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner has done his best to never mention President Donald Trump by name. But on Wednesday, days after he initially hesitated to call the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, an act of terrorism, Rauner issued his strongest criticism of Trump yet, saying his comments “damage America.”

Governor’s Day at the Illinois State Fair was not as celebratory as Gov. Bruce Rauner might have hoped. While he was holding a rally Wednesday, members of the Illinois House were at the state Capitol for an education hearing, with funding for schools across Illinois still up in the air.

Governor Bruce Rauner rarely mentions President Donald Trump by name, but he did so Wednesday in a forceful rebuke of the president’s post-Charlottesville remarks. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern has the latest.

After five people were injured in a shooting at a congressional baseball practice on Wednesday, Illinois politicians on both sides of the aisle spoke out against the incident.

After shots rang out at a baseball practice involving Congressmen on Wendesday, Illinois politicians condemned the attacks and called for increased safety measures and a toning down of rhetoric in the shooting’s aftermath. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

Congressman Rodney Davis, R-Ill., said Republicans and Democrats need to come together after a gunman shot a Republican congressmen, a congressiona staffer, a lobbyist and police at a baseball practice in Virginia.

US Rep. Rodney Davis, who represents the 13th Congressional District in Illinois, was among the members of Congress practicing at a Virginia baseball field when shots were fired Wednesday, his spokesperson confirmed, but he was not hurt.

Somewhere, an $8 million dollar report on the future of Lake Michigan is locked away. The subject: how to stop the long-feared invasion of destructive Asian carp into Lake Michigan.

President Donald Trump has drawn criticism for saying he doesn’t have time for books, even prompting a movement called “Bury the White House in Books on Valentine’s Day.” So with Read Across America Day being celebrated on Thursday, do Trump’s comments matter as adults use the day’s many events to encourage children to read? Not that much, according to literacy...

Former Rep. Bob Michel, a Republican who served in Congress for 38 years, died of pnuemonia Friday at the age of 93.