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....
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
Republican Senate candidate Mark Kirk of Illinois is reportedly trying to get Sarah Plain to endorse his candidacy, which is not surprising considerin...
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 10.30.2009 | Chicago
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Patrick Hughes came out the favored candidate in a straw poll conducted among members of a conservative PAC Thursday....
HuffingtonPost.com | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.30.2009 | Chicago
President Obama's senior adviser David Axelrod sat down on Thursday for a strategy session with one of the four Democrats running for the president's ...
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 10.22.2009 | Chicago
In a single day, a longshot Republican Senate candidate got caught trumpeting an endorsement he didn't have, then landing the endorsement after all. ...
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...
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
In a curious move that could provide fodder for critics, Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill) is polling members of his email list about their preferred position on...
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...
Chicago Public Radio | Sam Hudzik | Posted 10.06.2009 | Chicago
A spokeswoman for Democratic candidate Jacob Meister, an attorney, estimates the campaign took in $1,057,000 in the third quarter. All but about $27,0...
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 | Posted 10.01.2009 | Chicago
Da Coach isn't backing the favorite. Former Bears coach Mike Ditka, a longtime conservative who stumped with Sara Palin during the 2008 presidential ...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 09.29.2009 | Chicago
Former Chicago inspector general David Hoffman picked up the endorsement of a venerable former judge and unveiled a transparency platform Tuesday in h...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago