Republican U.S. Senate candidate Patrick Hughes came out the favored candidate in a straw poll conducted among members of a conservative PAC Thursday....
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.22.2009 | Chicago
There are chinks in Mark Kirk's conservative armor, but are there enough to keep the Republican Congressman from winning his party's 2010 Senate nomin...
Huffington Post | Posted 09.01.2009 | Chicago
Mark Kirk may have Tweeted himself into trouble last week. The Republican Congressman and Navy Reservist running to replace Roland Burris in the U.S....
Huffington Post | Posted 08.30.2009 | Chicago
Aspiring Senator and self-described moderate Republican Mark Kirk is fast backing away from his vote in favor of President Obama's cap-and-trade bill....
Shawn Healy | Posted 08.22.2009 | Chicago
By positioning himself as a centrist removed from the scandalous Blagojevich years, Mark Kirk has a betting chance to wrestle away a Senate seat in a purple state that has trended blue.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.20.2009 | Chicago
U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk announced his candidacy for President Obama's former Senate seat Monday and Democrats wasted little time challenging the man consi...
AP | Posted 08.20.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Republican Congressman Mark Kirk is running for the U.S. Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama. Kirk says Illinois has beco...
AP | Posted 08.17.2009 | Chicago
MARION, Ill. (AP) -- A retired southern Illinois judge says he wants to be a U.S. senator. Sixty-two-year-old Don Lowery of Dixon Springs in Pope Cou...
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI and HENRY C. JACKSON | Posted 08.15.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Republican Rep. Mark Kirk will announce Monday he's running for the Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama that has been mire...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 08.15.2009 | Chicago
U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk will finally make his long flirtation with a Senate run official Monday, according to numerous local reports. (See full AP story b...
AP | HENRY C. JACKSON | Posted 08.13.2009 | Chicago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Mark Kirk said Monday he expects to make an announcement about a run for statewide office soon - hours after the chairman of t...
Roll Call | Emily Heil and Elizabeth Brotherton | Posted 08.13.2009 | Chicago
As the rest of Capitol Hill was playing the "will he or won't he" game over whether Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) would run for the Senate, one of his colle...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.10.2009 | Chicago
U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk is denying a report that he has decided not to run for the Senate in part to avoid a primary with the Illinois Republican Party Ch...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 08.08.2009 | Chicago
North Shore Congressman Mark Kirk, R-Highland Park, has decided to run for the U.S. Senate, knowledgeable Republican sources are reporting. ...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 08.07.2009 | Chicago
The head of the Illinois Republican Party is making a move to run for the U.S. Senate. Andy McKenna Jr. is due in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to meet...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 07.16.2009 | Chicago
The man Illinois Republicans consider their best hope to win a senate seat or the governor's mansion is still not sure what office he'll run for in 20...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.06.2009 | Chicago
U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk and his wife, Kimberly Vertolli, are divorcing after eight years, according to a statement issued by his office Friday: Congressm...
Progress Illinois | Posted 06.21.2009 | Chicago
During the discussion of the 2010 U.S. Senate field on yesterday's edition of Chicago Tonight, anchor Elizabeth Brackett mentioned that she had talked...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 06.07.2009 | Chicago
After weeks of buzz that the Illinois GOP had found a U.S. Senate champion, congressman Mark Kirk may instead disappoint Republicans who were expectin...
Politico | Posted 05.31.2009 | Chicago
Illinois GOP congressman Mark Kirk would start off in solid position at winning in the Illinois Senate race, according to a new statewide poll....
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.17.2009 | Chicago
UPDATED (Scroll Down) Republican Congressman Mark Kirk, who says he will decide by the end of the month whether to run for either the U.S. Senate occ...
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 04.23.2009 | Chicago
Illinois is dominated by Democrats, but national Republicans see a chance to take away Sen. Roland Burris' seat because disgraced former Gov. Rod Blag...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 02.06.2009 | Chicago
North Shore Republican Rep. Mark Kirk said today that he had been "looking hard" at running in a special election for the U.S. Senate seat held by Pre...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.30.2009 | Chicago