Dirksen Congressional Center

Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood says he’d like to see the power of drawing congressional district maps given to the citizens.

The ideal of bipartisanship has dwindled in Congress and in Washington over several decades. The Dirksen Congressional Center in Pekin is holding an event to highlight the importance of that quality in helping government work well.

The Dirksen Congressional Center in Pekin kicks off its 50th anniversary celebration with a public open house reception on Tuesday. The event commemorates the exact day in 1975 when President Gerald Ford officially dedicated the nation’s only independent congressional research center and archive.

One of the lesser-known names of the civil rights movement will be in the spotlight this Friday in Peoria.

A new partnership between Bradley University and the Dirksen Congressional Center will provide students a fully-funded opportunity to intern in a congressional office.

Congress could use fewer showhorses, and more workhorses.That's according to Sean Q Kelly. He's a political science professor at California State…