Rod Blagojevich ... Brnovich for the post. Blagojevich, whose parents were Serbian, touted to POLITICO his long experience working in Balkan politics. As a Democratic House representative in ...

Rod Blagojevich ... Brnovich for the post. Blagojevich, whose parents were Serbian, touted to POLITICO his long experience working in Balkan politics. As a Democratic House Rep.

Illinois’ senior senator is in his fifth term in the upper chamber after seven terms in the House. The Senate seat ... drama between then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and the Obama team ...

Rod Blagojevich and has previously given clemencies ... indicted in 2023 when fellow Democrat Joe Biden was in the White House. The roots of the case reach back further, starting at least as ...

SPRINGFIELD — Charles "Chuck" Hartke, a hog farmer from Teutopolis who served in the Illinois House and later as ... was appointed ag director by Gov. Rod Blagojevich in 2003 and served until ...

SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois House on Monday approved legislation ... In 2007, then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed legislation permitting the Sanitary District of Decatur to sell its wastewater.

The legislator wound up interviewing a variety of qualified candidates and sent a list of names to the White House for consideration ... pardon to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich in February.

The White House confirmed the pardon ... In February, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich received a presidential pardon. Blagojevich had served eight years in prison after he was convicted ...

Rod Blagojevich’s pay-to-play scandals ... The alliance also gave House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, a Democrat from Hillside, a $250,000 contribution. Welch, who also had given his ...

He also was a political nemesis to then-House Speaker Michael Madigan, and one of the staunchest allies to then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was later impeached and convicted on federal corruption ...