There's new drama in the Illinois governor's race and it's within the same political party. ...
Chicago Sun-Times | LAURA WASHINGTON | Posted 10.26.2009 | Chicago
Two unusual suspects have stepped off the treadmill and caught my eye. Republican candidates Dan Proft and state Sen. Bill Brady are Going Where No Re...
Adlai Stevenson III | Posted 09.12.2009 | Chicago
Dan Hynes can restore the politics, little remembered, that made the Land of Lincoln a great state rather than an object of national mockery.
Henry Henderson | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green
D.C. should take notice that the Midwest is opening the road to a reinvigorated economy and clean energy future.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.30.2009 | Chicago
Though she's yet to form an exploratory committee, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan would be the favorite in the 2010 Democratic primary for gov...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.30.2009 | Chicago
Doug Whitley, the CEO of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, is abandoning his campaign for governor. In a statement posted on his campaign web site, W...
Chicago Tribune | Rick Pearson | Posted 05.13.2009 | Chicago
llinois' Republican chairman acknowledged today that his party's often-bitter 2006 primary for governor "was not constructive" in helping nominee Judy...
AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 03.02.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. Pat Quinn moved quickly Friday to put Rod Blagojevich's scandal-ridden tenure behind him, signing his first executive o...
AP | Posted 03.02.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — New Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says the ordeal is over, but now the work begins. Quinn was sworn in Thursday after the state Senate boot...
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 03.01.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was schooled in the politics of the Chicago Machine, but his successor's career has bee...
The Huffington Post | Ben Goldberger | Posted 03.01.2009 | Chicago
SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATES Addressing the media outside his Chicago home following his historic impeachment conviction, former Gov. Rod Blagojevich said...
AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 02.28.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. Rod Blagojevich has asked to make a statement at the impeachment trial he has so far avoided, but still refuses to answ...
Stuart Whatley | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
If only he had invoked Caesar from the start, instead of civil rights heroes whose legacies are so sacred to so many, perhaps he could go down more gracefully (or at least less offensively).
AP | Betsy Taylor | Posted 02.27.2009 | Chicago
ST. LOUIS - The chief executive of a campaign to bring the Olympics to Chicago in 2016 doesn't think the controversy surrounding the Illinois governor...
AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 02.27.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. Rod Blagojevich was hundreds of miles away, but his voice captivated the Illinois Senate Tuesday as impeachment prosecu...
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 02.27.2009 | Media
Today, after being impeached by the Illinois House, the Senate is hearing evidence to remove Rod Blagojevich, which it will probably do in the next few days.
Lloyd Garver | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
What Blagojevich did is so shocking that it could make "Lincoln turn over in his grave." But Caroline getting the seat because of her zillion-dollar fund raising ability wouldn't do the same?
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
Blagojevich, by any reasonable standard, ought to be beside himself with embarrassment over the 114 to 1 vote to impeach him. Yet he's reciting Tennyson in front of cameras.
Michael Fauntroy | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics
The Democrats should cut their losses and seat Burris. Perhaps they should cut their losses with Reid, too.
Stanley Kutler | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics
In this contest of wills -- the governor's rightful authority to appoint a senator as opposed to the Senate's power to judge the qualification of its members -- the last word simply belongs to the Senate.
John R. Bohrer | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics
It doesn't matter how clean his record was when he was in office a decade ago or if he didn't pay a cent for his appointment: Roland Burris is a willing pawn in a very corrupt game.
Allison Silver | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics
Though Blagojevich is regularly described as the apotheosis of the shady Illinois politician, he does not come close to the finesse and style embodied by masterful machine politicians. He's no McGinty.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 01.24.2009 | Media
Doing its best to prop up the beyond soggy Blago/Obama "scandal," The Note worked feverishly to convince fellow journalists that they didn't make fools of themselves hyping the non-story for weeks.
Neil McCarthy | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics
In electoral politics we want to avoid the rich and famous in favor of the modest but qualified. But we make it impossible for anyone but the rich and famous to get the jobs and then keep them.
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 01.20.2009 | Politics
Diane Nash is a pillar of the civil rights movement who happens to be a blue ribbon Chicago citizen and is certainly more qualified than Caroline Kennedy to be a US Senator.
Fox Chicago | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago