Democratic frontrunner Alexi Giannoulias trotted out another endorsement in his bid for President Obama's former U.S. Senate seat. U.S. Rep. Jan Scha...
Lee Newspapers | MIKE RIOPELL | Posted 11.13.2009 | Chicago
Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Jacob Meister criticized his opponents Thursday for being political insiders....
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.09.2009 | Chicago
There was no shortage of drama at the nation's Capitol Saturday as House Democrats narrowly passed their final version of the health care reform bill ...
Chicago Sun-Times | Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 11.09.2009 | Chicago
Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias is set to receive the endorsement today of Illinois' highest-ranking Hispanic elected official, U.S. Rep. L...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.06.2009 | Chicago
When word broke that self-described moderate Republican Mark Kirk was angling for kind words from Sarah Palin for his U.S. Senate bid, the response fr...
Chicago Tribune | Rick Pearson | Posted 11.03.2009 | Chicago
North Shore Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk said today that he expects he and first-term Democratic state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias will face off a y...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.03.2009 | Chicago
Democrat Alexi Giannoulias has pulled slightly ahead of Republican Mark Kirk in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup in the race for Illinois' soon-to-...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago
The mud has started to fly in the race for Barack Obama's former U.S. Senate seat. Just hours after Democratic candidate David Hoffman challenged riv...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate David Hoffman is challenging his primary rivals to match the standard of transparency Barack Obama set during his cam...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.21.2009 | Chicago
Democrat Alexi Giannoulias has closed a narrow gap with Republican Mark Kirk in a hypothetical showdown between the current frontrunners for President...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago
Three Democratic U.S. Senate candidates jumped all over Republican rival Mark Kirk Tuesday after the North Shore congressmen said voting for the Obama...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.16.2009 | Chicago
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate David Hoffman released his last five end-of-year federal income tax returns Thursday and pointedly called on frontrun...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
Contributing Reporting By Tim Taliaferro President Obama's senior adviser met on Wednesday with one of the three Democratic candidates running for Il...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.13.2009 | Chicago
Most Illinois Democrats have yet to make up their mind whom they intend to vote for in the 2010 U.S. Senate primary, a new poll finds. The survey of ...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.13.2009 | Chicago
Democrat Cheryle Robinson Jackson raised $355,000 in the latest fund-raising period toward her run for President Obama's former Senate seat, her campa...
The Hill | Aaron Blake | Posted 10.12.2009 | Chicago
Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) holds a seven-point lead over Alexi Giannoulias (D) and a wide lead over GOP primary opponents in his Senate campaign, accordi...
Chicago Sun-Times | Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 10.12.2009 | Chicago
In his inaugural speech as Illinois Republican Party chairman last week, Patrick Brady took shots at Democratic U.S. Senate front-runner Alexi Giannou...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.06.2009 | Chicago
State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias reported Tuesday his campaign raised $1.1 million in the third quarter of 2009 and has $2.4 million on hand in the r...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.05.2009 | Chicago
Democratic Senate candidate David Hoffman reported Monday that he has raised $905,137 in the month since announcing his candidacy for the seat current...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.05.2009 | Chicago
Republican Senate candidate Mark Kirk said Monday he has raised $1.6 million in the past three months and has $2.3 million in his campaign coffers in ...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 09.25.2009 | Chicago
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias earned the endorsement of one of the state's largest unions Thursday, and a shot from a rival in re...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago
Cheryle Robinson Jackson earned the endorsement of a powerful women's political group Thursday, just one day after officially launching her campaign f...
Chicago Sun-Times | Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 11.11.2009 | Chicago
Gov. Quinn won the endorsement Friday of the Cook County Democratic Party. Challenger Dan Hynes -- who almost succeeded in getting the party not to e...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago
Former Chicago Inspector General David Hoffman officially launched his campaign to replace Roland Burris as Illinois' junior Senator Thursday, stressi...
AP | Posted 11.08.2009 | Chicago
A Chicago attorney is running as a Democrat for President Barack Obama's old U.S. Senate seat....
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago