Alexi Giannoulias Events

1976 Mar 16 Alexi Giannoulias Born
1994 May Alexi Giannoulias graduates from The Latin School in Chicago
2006 Nov 7 Alexi Giannoulias elected Illinois State Treasurer
2007 Oct Alexi Giannoulias buys SUV with funds from Bright Start College Savings Program
How does purchasing a $26,000 Black 2008 Ford Escape Hybrid SUV with money taken from Bright Start, an Illinois-based college savings fund intended to help less fortunate students pay for...
2009 Jul 2 Report: Alexi Giannoulias aide helped get teen into University of Illinois
When a politically connected Greek Orthodox priest wanted help getting the daughter of a family friend into the University of Illinois, he reached out to a campaign adviser to state Treas...
2009 Jul 10 Alexi Giannoulias announces that he has raised $1.8 million to date for US Senate run
Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias raised $1.8 million to date for his Senate bid, while his likely Democratic rivals have zero dollars in their warchests. Giannoulias has been fund-...
2009 Jul 13 Alexi Giannoulias releases first round of endorsements for US Senate seat
Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias today released an initial list of over 60 elected officials who have pledged to support his bid for the U.S. Senate in 2010. Endorsements for Gi...
2009 Jul 13 Alexi Giannoulias speaks at Fulton County Democratic Headquarters
Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, a Democrat and the youngest state treasurer in the nation when elected to that post at age 30 in November 2006, discussed his intentions to run for t...
2009 Jul 13 Giannoulias' family-owned Broadway Bank files foreclosure suits involving two convicted Chicago bookmakers
"They were credit–worthy decisions, and again, it's easy to look back and say if we would have known real estate values would plummet 40%...it's easy to have 20–20 hindsight and make those..." —Alexi Giannoulias
2009 Jul 19 Alexi Giannoulias to formally announce run for US Senate, sources say
A spokesman says that State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias will make a formal announcement sometime next week about plans to run for the United States Senate. Giannoulias is not yet an of...
2009 Jul 26 Alexi Giannoulias announces run for Illinois Senate Seat
First-term state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias firmly affixed his candidacy for the U.S. Senate to President Barack Obama on Sunday, contending that a new generation of leadership in the mo...
2009 Jul 31 Illinois Senate president John Cullerton endorses Alexi Giannoulias for US Senate
State Senate President John Cullerton will endorse State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias for U.S. Senate today. Cullerton becomes the highest-profile elected official to endorse Giannoulia...
2009 Aug 5 Fox News' Sean Hannity investigates Alexi Giannoulias
SEAN HANNITY, HOST: All right, we've certainly learned about the ugly side of Chicago politics in the past year. The Rod Blagojevich and Roland Burris pay-to-play scandal seemed to repres...
2009 Aug 6 Poll shows Alexi Giannoulias favored to win Democratic nomination for Illinois US Senate Seat in 2010
Democrat Alexi Giannoulias, the Illinois state treasurer, holds a commanding lead over his two potential primary rivals in the Illinois Senate race, according to a new poll obtained by PO...
2009 Aug 10 Alexi Giannoulias gets endorsements for 2010 Senate bid from four unions
Locals of UNITE-HERE, UFCW, UA and the Illinois Pipe Trades hoped on the bandwagon of Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias today. The release is below. In other news, Giannoulias chief of staff, ...
2009 Aug 10 SEIU to endorse Alexi Giannoulias for 2010 US Senate bid
State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, I've learned, is picking up an early endorsement for his 2010 Democratic Senate bid from the Illinois State Council, Service Employees International Uni...
2009 Sep 7 Alexi Giannoulias' Family's Bank suffering due to bad loans, reports Chicago Business
The family of state Treasurer and U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias pulled $70 million out of its Broadway Bank in 2007 and 2008, just as Broadway's high-octane growth strategy coll...
2009 Sep 11 Alexi Giannoulias announces support for Gay Marriage, repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Illinois State Treasurer and U.S. Senate hopeful Alexi Giannoulias surprised voters last week when he announced an extensive LGBT rights platform that included everything from his support...
2009 Sep 11 Alexi Giannoulias heckled for holding a fund raiser on 9/11
He's got a video camera and a mission to make big conservative noise. William J. Kelly - an independent conservative TV producer that produced a show for FOX on WFLD-TV in Chicago and an ...
2009 Sep 11 Alexi Giannoulias receives endorsement of Cook County Democrats
The committeemen earlier endorsed State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias in his bid for U.S. Senate. Giannoulias and two of the three other Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate asked for t...
2009 Sep 24 David Hoffman blasts Alexi Giannoulias for Endorsement from SEIU
The campaign of rival candidate David Hoffman lit into Giannoulias for the endorsement. In a blog post on the campaign's web site Thursday, Daniel X. O'Neil, Hoffman's new media direct...
2009 Sep 24 SEIU formally announces endorsement Alexi Giannoulias for US Senate seat
Illinois' largest union, the Service Employees International Union, will announce Thursday it is backing Democratic front-runner Alexi Giannoulias for U.S. Senate. Giannoulias threw hi...
2009 Oct 5 Illinois Senate candidates announce campaign cash
The news only confirms what we already knew: the fight over President Barack Obama's old Senate seat is going to be an expensive one. Republican Congressman Mark Kirk reports he raised...
2009 Oct 11 Candidates in Illinois US Senate Race divided on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy
Illinois’ Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate want to overturn the nation’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays serving in the military, but they’re divided on the urgency of making ...
2009 Oct 12 Mark Kirk funded poll shows lead over Alexi Giannoulias for US Senate Seat
Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) holds a seven-point lead over Alexi Giannoulias (D) and a wide lead over GOP primary opponents in his Senate campaign, according to automated polling conducted for...
2009 Dec 9 Rasmussen poll shows Alexi Giannoulias ahead of Mark Kirk in IL US Senate Race
State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, a Democrat, has inched past Republican Rep. Mark Kirk in an Illinois governor match-up (although, within the margin of error), while Kirk remains slight...
2009 Dec 10 Planned Parenthood endorses Alexi Giannoulias for IL US Senate
The political arm of Planned Parenthood issued its endorsements today for the Feb. 2 Democratic primary, backing Alexi Giannoulias for U.S. Senate, Gov. Pat Quinn for election to a full t...
2009 Dec 11 Sierra Club endorses Alexi Giannoulias for IL US Senate
Sierra Club today announced its endorsement of Alexi Giannoulias for U.S. Senator in the February 2nd Democratic primary election. "Alexi Giannoulias is the best choice to represent th...
2009 Dec 12 Illinois' largest union of public service workers endorses Alexi Giannoulias for US Senate
The state’s largest union of public-service workers endorsed Alexi Giannoulias for U.S. Senate, state representative Julie Hamos for Congress and Judy Baar Topinka for state comptroller, ...
2009 Dec 14 Poll Shows Big Leads for Alexi Giannoulias and Mark Kirk in Illinois US Senate Race
Democrat Alexi Giannoulias and Republican Mark Kirk have been campaigning against each other as if they were the only ones running for the U.S. Senate. A Tribune/WGN-TV poll sheds some li...
2009 Dec 16 Candidates for Illinois US Senate Seat Debate at Union League Club
Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias today accused rival David Hoffman of being hypocritical for funding his campaign through personal investments in banks that received federal ...
2009 Dec 16 Sangamon County Board Member Tim Schweska Endorses Alexi Giannoulias for US Senate
On February 2, 2010 voters will go to the polls to nominate an individual to fill the US Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama. Because of recent actions by other politicians, e...
2009 Dec 22 Illinois' 529 Plan and Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias Settle Dispute with Oppenheimer
Now comes a piece in the Chicago Daily Observer by veteran political operative Don Rose that discloses some disturbing information for his handling of the treasurer's office. Through care...
2009 Dec 23 Illinois US Senate Candidates Announce Positions on gun control
DEMOCRATS: –Alexi Giannoulias: “No one needs a semiautomatic weapon on the streets of Chicago, and no convicted felons or domestic abusers need a weapon anywhere in Illinois.” –Davi...
2010 Jun 26 Rod Blagojevich Subpoenas US Senate Candidate Alexi Giannoulias
U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias says former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich's lawyers have subpoenaed him to testify at Blagojevich's corruption trial. Giannoulias said Sunda...