Mike Huckabee scored the first win on Super Tuesday today, with a narrow win over Mitt Romney at West Virginia's Republican convention. The win nets him 18 delegates.  Each party is holding contests in more than 20 states today,

Polls in the Chicago area are open until 7 p.m., and the stakes are high for the candidates in the running for the White House. CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery caught up with Democrat Barack Obama, casting his ballot

The race is heating up to replace retiring Congressman Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican speaker in U.S. history. The 14th Congressional District is in the far western suburbs, and stretches almost to the Mississippi River. CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli reports.

Customers of Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas will be hit with a rate increase, in the wake of Illinois Commerce Commission action Tuesday.

One of the suspects in a McKinney quadruple homicide pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal gun charges. Javier Cortez, 31, admitted to being a drug user in possession of a firearm and giving false information to a firearms dealer. Javier Cortez