Rickey R Hendon

A South Side lawmaker who helped found an AIDS awareness organization that attracted the interest of federal prosecutors has quietly resigned. Democratic Rep. Connie Howard stepped down from the Illinois House effective July 9. She cited "personal...

A Chicago Democratic lawmaker charged with bribery a week ago won decisively in Tuesday's primary, the first election under a newly drawn map that shook up House and Senate seats from the city to the suburbs. Even before unofficial results rolled in,...

Where do our lawmakers stand on the issue of legislative scholarships -- those tuition waivers that members of the state house and senate have traditionally been allowed to dispense to constituents? As part of the renewed effort to abolish that......

From Sunday's print editions... Yes, Carol Moseley Braun's mayoral candidacy was a humiliating disaster. After all of Tuesday's votes were counted, we learned from the Chicago Board of Elections that she won only one of the city's 2,570 precincts —....

A roundup of state and local news-review and weekly political chat shows. Descriptions provided by the broadcast outlets in most cases: "Chicago Live!" election round-up panel (mp3) Thursday evening at the Chicago Theater, I moderated this discussion...

To Rob Warden, who was there at the beginning… When Gov. Quinn put his signature on a bill today abolishing the death penalty in Illinois, he wrote the final line in a story that in a very real sense began......

Posted by Monique Garcia at 7:48 p.m. Failed governor candidate Scott Lee Cohen has set his sights on a seat in the Illinois Senate. He’s seeking the spot left open after controversial longtime West Side Sen. Rickey Hendon abruptly announced......

Posted by Tribune staff at 1:51 p.m.; updated at 4:10 p.m. State Rep. Annazette Collins will replace Rickey Hendon representing Chicago's West Side in the Illinois Senate. Collins emerged after a series of applicants made their pitches to a Democratic.......

Posted by Monique Garcia at 3:16 p.m.; updated at 3:19 p.m. Chicago political leaders today chose an administrator in the Illinois Secretary of State's office to take over an open state House seat on the West Side. Derrick Smith gets......