State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) joined other Illinois legislators in attempts to prevent health insurance companies from denying coverage or giving higher premiums to those with pre-existing conditions. Although...

Illinois Democrats sounded off on an estimate from the Congressional Budget Office that a projected 14 million Americans would lose health care by next year under the proposed repeal of the Affordable...

A raise in the minimum wage affects not only workers, but the entire community, said McDonald's employee Nancy Salgado at Northwestern on Wednesday night. Salgado is a member of Chicago's Fight for...

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. And that’s exactly what John Boehner did on Friday when he mocked certain...

Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Evanston said Wednesday she was "proud to join" about 200 demonstrators arrested during an immigration reform protest in Washington, D.C. Schakowsky was let out...