Illinois Lt Governor

The already bleak future of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor in Illinois got a bit bleaker last week with Governor Pat Quinn's new budget announc...

The head of the Illinois Republican Party said he is standing behind the party's young lieutenant governor candidate in the wake of revelations that t...

After weeks of public scrutiny and many, many interviews; embattled lieutenant governor nominee Scott Lee Cohen officially dropped out of the race Fri...

Quinn and Duckworth? Not likely, say insiders. Governor Quinn wants her to be his Lt. Governor, but Tammy Duckworth is not likely to leave her Wash...

Here is something you don't hear every day: an Illinois Democrat criticizing state Democratic Party Chairman Michael Madigan. After announcing his c...

As state democrats hope that Illinois Democratic Lieutenant Governor nominee Scott Lee Cohen steps aside as soon as possible, the drama surrounding th...

Scott Lee Cohen -- a pawnbroker who shocked state Democratic leaders Tuesday night by winning the party's nomination for lieutenant governor -- was ar...

Illinois State Senator Rickey Hendon, who is running for Illinois lieutenant governor, has a rather interesting campaign ad running on local radio sta...

In a state so plagued by cronyism and shady self-dealing that the head of the FBI here didn't hesitate to call Illinois one of the -- if not the -- mo...