President Donald Trump has issued a full and unconditional pardon for Scott Jenkins, a former Virginia sheriff convicted in ...

President Donald Trump says he is pardoning Scott Jenkins, a former Virginia sheriff who was sentenced to 10 years in prison ...

Eric Zorn, Publisher of The Picayune Sentinel, joins John Williams to talk about the possibility of disgraced former governor Rod Blagojevich running for Dick Durbin’s Senate seat, Gov. Pritzker’s ...

The big news out of Chicago this week wasn’t so big. A politician most people have never heard of announced she won’t run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated ...

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The ...

Below most of her sketches were key notes from the testimony she heard, like from former Gov. Rod Blagojevich listening to secretly recorded conversations, saying "sounds like me." Austin had to ...

Gov. George Ryan also served as Illinois Secretary of State and Speaker of the House. Ryan served five-and-a-half years in federal prison on corruption charges. Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan ...

If signed by Pritzker, local leaders intend to use the authorization as an economic development incentive. Data center companies eyeing the region could use the effluent for their cooling systems.

NO MIDWEST NICE: The New York Times is out with a juicy story about the Illinois Senate race and the “deep animosity” that Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton and Congress members Robin Kelly and Raja ...

Dick Durbin’s seat. And while his actions are a far cry from then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s “effing golden” debacle in the filling of Barack Obama’s Senate seat, it still reeks of “watch ...