As eight senators in Chuck Schumer’s caucus broke ranks to side with Republicans and vote to end the government shutdown fight he had engineered, the New York Democrat was on the phone trying to make ...

I think that is the crudest form of political weapon that I can imagine — and that's why I came to the conclusion that we had ...

Saying that he could not justify “playing with other people’s lives” as millions of Americans went without their paychecks ...

After 41 days, Democratic U.S. senators finally decided to end their charade and vote to reopen the federal government. For more than a month, President Donald Trump and Republicans urged ...

With the longest government shutdown in American history nearing its end, Democratic Gov.JB Pritzker weighed in on the eight ...

Chris Tye is our weekend evening anchor and political reporter at CBS News Chicago. The second immigration sweep, "Operation ...

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, one of eight members of the chamber to cross party lines and endorse a GOP plan to end the nation’s ...

McLaughlin has been working hard to counter some of the falsities that media outlets have spread since the Trump administration took office in January. DHS says there has been an 8,000% increase in ...

Article Summary Illinois’ Dick Durbin was one of eight Democrats in the U.S. Senate to support a plan on Sunday ...

The party breakdown for the answer is also revealing. Democrats have a negative 67 percent view of ICE, while Republicans ...

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called out federal agents for their photo op after attacking a Chicago neighborhood.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stirred a nation when he told Americans that the “only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” ...