Illinois Politics Events

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...

"You probably don't know my name, but that's a good thing." —Jacob Meister

As former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich (D) sees it while awaiting trial on corruption charges, "the story's upside down." Far from brazenly peddling influence while in office, he swe...

The former chief fundraiser for ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has pleaded guilty to taking part in a $8.5 million fraud arising from hangar roofing contracts at Chicago's O'Hare ai...

Indicted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said today that the allegations against him are "false" and that he believes he will be "fully vindicated" of the corruption charges brought ...

"I know what the truth is and I know that I not only won't be found to have done anything wrong. I will prove my innocence. I have been victimized." —Rod Blagojevich

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate David Hoffman formally kicks off his campaign late morning in Garfield Park. Then he piles into an RV and heads out for a statewide tour. Chicago's former...

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 ...

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...

Rod Blagojevich may have launched an aggressive media blitz for his new book this week, but it's Chicago-born actress Bonnie Hunt who gets credit for the sack. The comedian, whose prog...

Kelly was taken to Oak Forest Hospital at 11:15 p.m. Friday, said Marcel Bright, a spokesman for Stroger hospital in Chicago. He was later transferred to Stroger for further treatment. Ke...

"I voted for it because it was in the narrow interests of my congressional district. But as your representative, representing the entire state of Illinois, I will vote 'No' on that bill co..." —Mark Kirk

The University of Illinois campus community has spoken, and it didn't mince words. In a 98 to 55 vote, members of the faculty-student Senate for the Urbana-Champaign campus said they do n...

Chicago Urban League President Cheryle Jackson is now formally a candidate for U.S. Senate. Jackson Wednesday talked up her work at the Urban League, while downplaying another part of her...

"As I've said from the beginning, I have done nothing wrong, nor have I been accused of doing anything wrong...Everyone knew that I was interested in the Senate appointment. I was deeply h..." —Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.

About 250 mourners, including former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, his wife Patti and their two daughters, attended an emotional funeral service this morning for his close confidant Christopher ...

Cheryle Robinson Jackson earned the endorsement of a powerful women's political group Thursday, just one day after officially launching her campaign for President Obama's former Senate se...

Rod Blagojevich sold a seat for $10,200. Finally. After 67 bids, some fool and his money was his money was parted when the person purchesed the guest seat from the set of ABC’s Jimmy K...

This evening's "Public Affairs," show is perhaps the most in-depth TV interview to date of U. S. Senate Candidate Hoffman, who previously was an Ass't U. S. Attorney (in Chicago) for seve...

When Cheryle Jackson formally launched her campaign for the U.S. Senate last week, she kicked it off with a major name change. Cheryle Jackson is now Cheryle Robinson Jackson. Family c...

Former Chicago Inspector General David Hoffman, who recently announced his intention to run in the Democratic U.S. Senate primary in February, is also a proponent of the rights of gays an...

Illinois' former governor will hit two more talk shows this week to hock his new book. Gov. Rod Blagojevich will sit down with Chelsea Handler Tuesday night on her cable show, "Chelsea...

Gov. Pat Quinn says he expects University of Illinois President B. Joseph White to submit his resignation to trustees today. "He's let me know that something is imminent and I think th...

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...

The Obama Administration plans to give $400,000 in funding to a Libyan charity run by the Gadhafi family, and U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) wants the grant withdrawn. The money would be...

Rod Blagojevich's stranger-than-fiction tour through America's media landscape reached a new milestone Thursday night as he appeared on "The Daily Show" to profess his innocence, flog his...

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...

This past June, Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) — who is now running for Senate — was one of the eight Republicans to cast a vote in favor of Waxman-Markey clean energy legislation. But ever since ...

U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, a Republican Senate candidate, said Monday the Census Bureau should drop any involvement with the Service Employees International Union for the 2010 population count....

David Hoffman is promising to give the public more information about his meetings, spending and campaign fundraising if he's elected to the U.S. Senate. The Chicago Democrat said Tuesd...

Former Chicago inspector general David Hoffman picked up the endorsement of a venerable former judge and unveiled a transparency platform Tuesday in his bid for President Obama’s former S...

At his health care townhall in Northbrook today, GOP Rep. and U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk received an off-topic question regarding his support earlier this summer for the House climat...

Chicago Bears legend Mike Ditka is backing the little-known Patrick Hughes for the Republican Senate nomination in Illinois. In a statement released Thursday by the Hughes campaign, Di...

The wife of ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is suing the director of a charity where she formerly worked, saying he damaged her reputation by claiming she stole a list of donors. ...

Developer Patrick Hughes (R), who made some headlines last week for securing the endorsement of former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka, told The Hill on Wednesday that he will report $380,...

Cheryle Jackson, who once served as a top aide to disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, says she's raised $354,000 in her bid to become Illinois' next U.S. senator. The dollar totals ...

"There is much more here than a game show. There is a confessional element where people say things about themselves and about other people." —Judge James Zagel

On the same day former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is expected in district court to see if the judge will let him participate in the reality show -- because it will air months before hi...

CHICAGO — A former aide to ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has pleaded guilty to corruption charges and has agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors in their investigation of Bla...

U.S. Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.) today gave his support to Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cheryle Robinson Jackson. In his endorsement, Davis said Jackson has "the most experience deal...

Andy McKenna, one of the Republican governor candidates in the February GOP primary, is getting national exposure from his clever campaign commercial that talks about the culture of “the ...

"To Hollywood, Rod Blagojevich might be a harmless joke, but to Illinoisans he's no laughing matter" —Illinois Senator Dave Syverson

It was June, 2008, when a Naperville businessman met with an influential city alderman to talk about winning lucrative airport concessions contracts. Their discussion was part in code ...