SPRINGFIELD — Democrats continue to hold a supermajority in the Illinois House thanks ... two election cycles since a new map was drawn in 2021 following the census and implemented for the ...

Katie Welch, a seventh-grade math teacher, was named West Central Regional Teacher of the Year by the Illinois State Board of Education. The state board of education also honored other educators ...

Winter weather is forecast to hit central Illinois on Wednesday. In response, multiple municipalities around Peoria are instituting bans for on-street parking. As of Tuesday afternoon, a few ...

The East Peoria Riverfront TIF district is one step closer to reality after council members approved multiple ordinances ...

Although many census tract boundaries do not change every 10 years, in Philadelphia 38 out of 408 (9.3%) tracts had > 2% area change between 2010 and 2020. LTDB allows researchers to include these ...

Illinois state Rep. Ryan Spain, R-Peoria, discusses a dot chart prepared by University of Michigan research Jowei Chen showing diluted Republican voting power because of gerrymandering in the ...

Mapmaking in Illinois is a process that invariably becomes deadlocked and the name of the party chosen to draw the map is pulled from a hat. It's gone to Democrats after the U.S. Census the last ...

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Since the first U.S. census in 1790, no resident has ever been omitted from those numbers because of immigration status. And after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment has called for the population ...