UPDATED STORY A political operative is telling federal investigators that Jesse Jackson, Jr. offered $6 million to Rod Blagojevich in return for an a...
AP | KATHLEEN MILLER | Posted 05.25.2011
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Lawmakers in at least 15 states backed stripping governors of their power to fill U.S. Senate vacancies after former Illinois G...
AP | MICHAEL TARM and MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — Days after the November 2008 election, Rod Blagojevich sent word to Barack Obama that he would name one of the president-elect's close...
Progress Illinois | Angela Caputo | Posted 05.25.2011
The controversy over Sen. Roland Burris' appointment to Illinois' junior senate seat may seem like a lifetime ago. But a group of well-known local att...
Chicago Sun-Times | NATASHA KORECKI | Posted 05.25.2011
Multimillionaire Chicago trader Blair Hull wanted to be a U.S. senator so badly that he spent more than $24 million of his personal fortune in 2004, b...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO (AP) -- Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says a recently released phone conversation taped secretly by federal authorities shows his broth...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — Just two weeks before his arrest on corruption charges, then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich floated a plan to nominate to the U.S. Senate the da...
Chicago Sun-Times | NATASHA KORECKI | Posted 05.25.2011
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's camp was told last year that U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) would raise up to $5 million in campaign cash for the ...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — The speaker of the Illinois House said Sunday he doesn't think a bill taking away the governor's power to appoint President-elect Bara...
New York Times | Thomas Geoghegan | Posted 05.25.2011
IN 2009 four new senators will slip into office -- all in violation of the Constitution, which requires a special election to fill a Senate vacancy. C...
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011
From a legal and Constitutional perspective, the question of whether or not Burris should be allowed to take his seat as the Junior Senator from Illinois is not especially difficult. He should.
Aaron Harber | Posted 05.25.2011
There is no question Michael Bennet is a highly-qualified individual who will bring many talents to the U.S. Senate. And there is no reason he could not be a great Senator.
Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011
SPRINGFIELD-- In a formal affidavit, Roland Burris says he had only one limited conversation with Governor Rod Blagojevich before accepting his appoin...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO - The man who embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich named to fill a vacant Senate seat says he hopes legal details regarding his controversi...
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — Roland Burris is battling for a U.S. Senate seat in court and through the media, briefly shifting the spotlight away from the man who ...
CBS 2 | Posted 05.25.2011
Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his U.S. Senate appointee, former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris, might be heading to Washington, D.C., for next wee...
Chicago Sun-Times | Kara Spak | Posted 05.25.2011
He doesn't have his plane ticket yet, but Roland Burris is planning on traveling to Washington, D.C., for next week's swearing-in ceremony for incomin...
TPM | Eric Kleefeld | Posted 05.25.2011
A spokesman for Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White (D) confirmed to Election Central that White knows he does not truly have the authority to sto...
Chicago Sun-Times | Chris Fusco | Posted 05.25.2011
Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) on Dec. 9 said Gov. Blagojevich's alleged conduct was so "heinous" that the governor should not fill President-elect Barack O...
Hermene Hartman | Posted 05.25.2011
The world may not understand it, but we who live in Illinois got it. And most of all, the politicians got it. I am still the Governor of the State of Illinois, confirmed Mr. Blagojevich.
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Rep. Bobby Rush says he doesn't think any U.S. senator would be caught turning a black man away from serving alongside them. He th...
AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 05.25.2011
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. Rod Blagojevich's pick for the U.S. Senate said Wednesday that he stands behind his earlier criticism of the Illinois g...
Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) would like to replace President-elect Barack Obama in the Senate. The appointment was dangled before him la...
Chicago Tribune | Ray Long and John Chase | Posted 05.25.2011
Democrat Roland Burris went to the Illinois Supreme Court today to fight to be seated in the U.S. Senate. Burris, appointed by disgraced Gov. Rod Bla...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011
The idea that there are seats and appointments specially reserved for blacks and minorities in Illinois or anywhere else is hardly an aberration. Politicians shuffle the race card all the time.
Posted 05.25.2011