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 ...

George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich as well as ex-Ald. Edward Burke and former House Speaker Michael Madigan. In his first months in office, President Donald Trump has marshaled resources from across ...

And former Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he’s weighing a run, too. Nikki Budzinski’s take: “This is Illinois, which is a place of sharp elbows and rough-and-tumble politics,” the Democratic ...

Anger at Ryan weakened Republicans for years and energized the gubernatorial campaign of a charismatic young Democrat who promised to clean up Springfield — Rod Blagojevich. Later, as federal ...

A case in point: his commutation and eventual pardon of Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois. He was convicted in 2011 on charges related to trying to sell an appointment to ...

CHICAGO — Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s lawyers have reluctantly agreed to be paid far below the rate some of them usually charge in return for being allowed to tap his $2.3 million campaign ...

I knew him well when I was in Congress & Governor,” former Gov. Rod Blagojevich wrote on X. “He is a career politician, hyper partisan Dem. & political insider whose wife used to lobby me.

and Rod Blagojevich, the disgraced former governor of Illinois who was convicted on multiple charges of corruption in 2011. In one of the earliest acts of his presidency, Trump granted a blanket ...

Trump granted 144 pardons during his first term, and pardoned people like ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in addition to Jan. 6 protesters in his second term.