As Dick Durbin watched his effort to stave off home foreclosures get slaughtered in the Senate by bank lobbyists earlier this month, he concluded that...
AP | Posted 06.08.2009 | Chicago
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Union Pacific Railroad and the state of Illinois announced an agreement Friday to assess what must be done to operate both freight a...
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN and KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Republican-turned-Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter gained a Judiciary subcommittee chairmanship but also a potential primary challenge...
Mike Lux | Posted 06.06.2009 | Business
It's time for us to declare the big banks politically and morally insolvent, and foreclose on their ownership of DC. The question is how to do it.
WBBM Newsradio | Posted 06.04.2009 | Chicago
Durbin says there are some outstanding potential choices for the US Supreme Court right here in Chicago. He suggests Federal Judge Anne Williams, who'...
Lawrence Lessig | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics
If you think special-interest influence in Congress perverts our public policy, last week saw an outrage that vindicates that belief entirely.
Ann Pettifor | Posted 06.02.2009 | Business
Bankers and their lobbyists on the Hill may be voraciously greedy and anti-democratic, but, ironically, they are not pursuing their own best interests.
Paul Blumenthal | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
The financial sector has been running wild through Washington over the past 11 years -- getting whatever it pleases and blocking whatever it doesn't.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
Only 45 Senate Democrats voted Thursday to oppose the banking industry and pass legislation aimed at stemming foreclosures. The bill would have allowe...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics
How do the same banks that have repeatedly come to Washington over the last eight months asking for billions to rescue them from their catastrophic mistakes, somehow still "own the place"?
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics
The Senate on Thursday rejected an effort to stave off home foreclosures by a vote of 51 to 45. It was an overwhelming defeat, with the bill's backers...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced legislation in the Senate Thursday which would allow homeowners in bankruptcy to renegotiate -- or cramdown -- mo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has been battling the banks the last few weeks in an effort to get 60 votes lined up for bankruptcy reform. He's losing. O...
AP | Posted 05.28.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Corruption-busting prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has agreed to stay on as U.S. attorney in Chicago, U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin said Mond...
AP | Posted 05.28.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is younger than Sen. Roland Burris, but that didn't stop Burris from calling his fellow Democrat Illinois' "seni...
AP | Posted 05.21.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- The nation's second largest transit system has already begun using federal stimulus money to repair Chicago's aging subway network, of...
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics
One can only hope that quick passage of the UAFA will help people like Karla and Stacy have a fair shot at making a loving committed relationship work for the long term.
NYCity News Service | Posted 05.08.2009 | World
Coltan, when refined, is used in many common electronic devices. But Congolese miners have been killed, and women raped, during the 11-year war over the valuable mineral deposits.
Don McNay | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business
Because of Johnson, the tax refund business might stick around, luring in more millions of Americans.
Michael Markarian | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics
We see cruelty and abuse every day in our work, and it's important to take a step back and celebrate the dedicated and compassionate people who are making a meaningful difference.
AP | Posted 05.03.2009 | Chicago
The reactions of leading Illinois politicians to the Blagojevich indictment, as assembled by the AP: CHICAGO -- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says it's a s...
Lawrence Lessig | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
For years, financial institutions like Bank of America and AIG donated millions to the very people who were supposed to regulate them. The result is obvious.
Nick Nyhart | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics
With powerful Congressional leaders now behind public financing, the chances to roll back the pay-to-play politics norm in Washington, D.C. have never looked better.
Michael Markarian | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics
At puppy mills, breeding dogs are often stacked in filthy, wire cages for years on end, to produce litter after litter.
Associated Press | Posted 04.25.2009 | Chicago
Amtrak in Illinois will receive $80 million in federal stimulus money to modernize train repair centers as well as to improve security and wheelchair ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney and Ryan Grim | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics