Illinois Politics Events

Mad magazine's annual "Mad 20'' issue -- on sale next Tuesday -- features the dumbest people, events and things of the year. Guess who ranked 15th on the list? Former Illinois Gov. Rod Bl...

Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and his brother Robert are still scheduled to spend the summer in a Chicago federal court - despite the best efforts of their attorneys. Sheldo...

"While the [Senate Ethics] Committee did not find that the evidence before it supported any actionable violations of law, Senators must meet a much higher standard of conduct. Your sworn ..." —US Senate Select Committee on Ethics

Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich would assert his 5th Amendment right against self incrimination if asked to testify in a civil lawsuit spurred by his federal corruption indictment, one of his...

At least one computer containing evidence in the corruption case against former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was stolen in an overnight burglary of the offices of Mr. Blagojevich's a...

Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich will take the stand at his fraud trial but claim his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination if called to testify in a $90 million civil suit, a defen...

Police say a search of a Chicago home didn't turn up any of the items stolen from former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's (bluh-GOY'-uh-vich) attorneys. Chicago police said late Saturda...

Federal prosecutors may reindict former Gov. Rod Blagojevich to help avoid problems with a possible U.S. Supreme Court decision, prosecutors said in a court filing today. The high cour...

The nation's most potent law against public corruption could be in danger of being scaled back or struck down by the Supreme Court, threatening a series of high-profile cases, including t...

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...

Rod Blagojevich's lawyers want the FBI to give up details of interviews conducted last year of President Obama, his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and o...

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...

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, ...

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...

Obama ordered the shutdown of the detention center as one of his first acts after taking office in January. But actually closing it has proven a cumbersome matter, largely because of t...

It’s Viva Las Vegas, the 1964 teen-idol vehicle, starring the King and Ann-Margret, which Blago defended during last night’s Cinema Slapdown at Columbia College. Besides doubling as a sig...

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...

Rod Blagojevich's brother, Robert, is asking a judge to keep private 208 phone calls he says the FBI wrongly intercepted as part of its investigation into the former governor. A defens...

From NBC's Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro Following our Top 10 list of the decade's best statewide races, today we look at the decade's Top 10 political downfalls. What ...

Sen. Roland Burris has had quite a 2009 – going from one time Illinois Attorney General to Rod Blagojevich-appointed U.S. Senator. How do you cap off the whirlwind year? A little healt...

When the decade opened, Barack Obama was serving in the Illinois Senate before moving on to the U.S. Senate. His history-making election as president of the United States in 2008 was chos...

Donald Trump boasted that the upcoming season of "The Celebrity Apprentice" is the best ever and promised the star power of its cast "blows `Dancing With the Stars' away." Yes, it's a ...

Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich apologized this morning for saying in an Esquire Magazine interview that he was "blacker than Barack Obama." Blagojevich, in front of his home ...

Chicago defense attorney Allan Ackerman filed papers in federal court asking permission to withdraw from former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s defense team on Thursday. Ackerman s...

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is in hot water once again as he faces a new set of corruption charges that stem from his attempt to sell the US Senate seat once held by Barack O...

"Today I am laying down the gauntlet. I challenge the government, if you're on the side of truth and justice like you say you are, and if this was a crime spree like you claim it was, then..." —Rod Blagojevich

On Feb. 11, 2010 Rod Blagojevich did an interview with Bill O'Reilly on the Fox News program the O'Reilly Factor. Even after all of his corruption charges Blagojevich did the interview b...

"I'm an innocent man. I've done nothing wrong. I'm looking forward to the day I can get my name back." —Robert Blagojevich

Rod Blagojevich is scheduled to appear tonight on Fox News Channel's 'Geraldo at Large' for a live interview, according to The Publicity Agency, the PR firm that represents the former Ill...

MEDIA ALERT Former Governor and ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ competitor Rod Blagojevich not hosting "new" web talk show - cease and desist sent to show’s producers NEW YORK, February 16 /PR...

From the time he walked through the curtain on "The Late Show with David Letterman" Tuesday, ex- Gov. Rod Blagojevich was a walking punch line, drawing big laughs when he maintained he'll...

In trouble during his first term as Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich somehow managed to win re-election. In a case of art imitating life, Blagojevich once again overcame the odds and...

Federal prosecutors have filed a key document laying out their corruption case against former Gov. Rod Blagojevich out of the public eye — at least for now. Such a filing is typically ...

Robert Blagojevich, brother and co-defendant of our ex-governor Rod Blagojevich, has asked to have his trial separated from that of his brother's. Why? Taint: he doesn't want any taint ag...

A little more than six weeks before former Gov. Rod Blagojevich is to stand trial on corruption charges in federal court, prosecutors on Monday sought to put limits on the kinds of argume...

"I challenge Mr. Fitzgerald. Why don't you show up in court tomorrow and explain to everybody, say to the whole world why you don't want those tapes that you made played in court? I'll be ..." —Rod Blagojevich

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says he's been subpoenaed by Rod Blagojevich's defense attorneys to testify at the ousted Illinois governor's upcoming corruption trial. Durbin discussed the subp...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was front-and-center for a motivational speech by Elvis Presley's stepbrother at a suburban Chicago church. Rick Stanley quickly picked the embattl...

"For example, comments by counsel or witnesses along the lines, 'If it was up to us, we would play all the tapes,' are improper." —Judge James Zagel

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's (blah-GOY'-uh-viches) attorneys have gone to a federal appeals court in a last-ditch effort to delay his corruption trial. Blagojevich's lawyers ...

Prosecutors in Chicago say an effort by ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's lawyers to delay his corruption trial is frivolous and should be dismissed. Prosecutors asked a federal appeals c...

An audit of the All Kids health insurance program reveals state health care agencies have widespread problems managing millions of taxpayer dollars largely spent on benefits for undocumen...

The 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has denied a motion from former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich to have his corruption trial postponed. Blagojevich's lawyers had sought to dela...

"Given the former governor's previous antics regarding this case, it's no surprise he is casting a wide net -- apparently from the president down to dogcatcher." —Joe Shoemaker, Sen. Dick Durbin's spokesman

John Harris, former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's chief of staff, pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to charges that he helped Blagojevich attempt to sell Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat. ...

"If and when I am called, I will tell the truth and say under oath what I've said again and again since this shocking scandal first broke. I did nothing wrong and never authorized or engag..." —Jesse Jackson, Jr.

In a controversial decision revealed Monday, the federal judge presiding over former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial said he intends to keep the identities of jurors secret until...