The pardon was the latest overture between the president and the former governor, who is still known in Chicago simply as ...

Jurors on Tuesday are set to return for their 10th day of deliberations in the marathon corruption trial of ex-speaker Michael Madigan. Deliberations began the afternoon of Jan. 29 and as of Monday ...

Demonstrators outside the Illinois Capitol — and Democratic state legislators within it — on Wednesday vowed to “resist” the ...

President Donald Trump’s pardoning of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich drew angry reactions from some Illinois political leaders ...

Blagojevich was convicted in 2011 on charges that included seeking to sell an appointment to then-President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat and trying to shake down a children’s hospital. Blagojevich ...

() - Aaron Del Mar, while speaking at a Lincoln Day Dinner in Lincoln, Illinois, hosted by the Logan County Republicans, ...

“This is not a secret. A federal court acknowledged it. The mapmaker for the Illinois Democratic Party admitted it. One read through the legislative history confirms it. And a glance at the ...

NEW YORK — (AP) — The Democratic National Committee will elect a new chair on Saturday as the party seeks new leadership to guide Democrats through Donald Trump's second presidency.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker ... “Now more than ever the Democratic Party needs a leader who is willing to punch back and fight for the hardest working people in our economy,” he said in a ...