President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat who served prison time for soliciting campaign funds and other favors in exchange for former President ...

CHICAGO – Defiant and unapologetic, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted in 2011 of trying to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat, called himself a "freed political prisoner ...

Rod Blagojevich starts his Thursday facing a bleak countdown — 71 days before the twice-elected Illinois governor must say good-bye to his family and begin serving a 14-year sentence for corruption.

Former Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich lambasted members of his own party on Thursday for "coordinated prosecutions" against former President Trump and urged Democrats to vote for the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Wednesday, after apologizing for making "terrible mistakes," capping a nearly three-year saga for Illinois.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Three years after former Gov. Rod Blagojevich filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the ban on him ever running for state or local office again, a federal judge issued a blistering ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he still has nightmares about his years in federal prison. He continues to insist he was framed and calls his prosecution corrupt. Blagojevich is writing ...

But Rod Blagojevich told Newsweek, "It all started with me." Former Illinois governor and convicted felon Rod Blagojevich speaks to the press outside of the Dirksen Federal Courthouse on August 02 ...

Rod Blagojevich that could have opened the door on another run for office. Blagojevich filed the lawsuit about two years ago, but U.S. District Judge Steven Seeger didn't dismiss the case until ...