Photo | Sheila Fitzgerald | Shutterstock.com
While Illinois lawmakers and local officials are considering raising the legal age to smoke and own firearms, a push to lower the voting age is gaining steam.
Vote 16 Illinois is a chapter of Vote 16 USA, a nonprofit with a goal to lower the legal voting age requirements for local elections. The group is working with state lawmakers to start the conversation about getting 16-year-olds the right to vote.
More HERE
By Jacqueline Garretson, Opinion ContributorThere’s a hard truth many don’t want to say out loud: evil doesn’t disappear when we enter politics – it often finds a foothold...
Read moreDetails
By Illinois ReviewJust hours after suffering a decisive 25-point defeat in the Illinois Republican primary, gubernatorial candidate Ted Dabrowski skipped the Illinois Republican Party’s annual Unity Breakfast –...
Read moreDetails
By Amanda Szulc, Opinion ContributorThere are moments in politics when the noise threatens to drown out something essential: truth handled with integrity.For years, I wrote quietly about Illinois...
Read moreDetails
By Illinois ReviewIn one of the most shocking results of the Illinois primary election, conservative grassroots candidate Josh Higgins delivered a decisive defeat to longtime Republican incumbent and...
Read moreDetails
By Illinois ReviewDarren Bailey’s decisive victory in Tuesday’s Republican gubernatorial primary wasn’t just a win for a candidate – it was a clear rejection of the political class,...
Read moreDetails
llinois Review LLC Editor-in-Chief Mark Vargas General Counsel Scott Kaspar Copyright © 2025 IR Media Corp., all rights reserved.