Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Roland Burris made customary appearances at the annual Chicago St. Patrick's Day Parade, but drew very different...
Associated Press | Posted 04.11.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Efforts to remove Roland Burris from the U.S. Senate hit yet another roadblock Wednesday in the Illinois Legislature. A House com...
Associated Press | Posted 04.11.2009 | Chicago
U.S. Sen. Roland Burris has been added to the list of defendants in a lawsuit aimed at forcing Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn to call an election to fill his...
Chicago Sun-Times | DAVE MCKINNEY AND CHRIS FUSCO | Posted 04.06.2009 | Chicago
On the same December day then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich named Roland Burris to fill President Obama's U.S. Senate vacancy, Burris' right-hand political man...
Chicago Tribune | Rick Pearson and Deanese Williams | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
Sen. Dick Durbin, who advised Sen. Roland Burris last week to step down from the Senate, acknowledged Sunday that racial considerations were at play i...
AP | HENRY C. JACKSON | Posted 04.01.2009 | Chicago
WASHINGTON — If it were up to Roland Burris, he'd be here to stay. A week of lonely walks, calls for his resignation and cameras following his ...
Hermene Hartman | Posted 03.30.2009 | Chicago
The Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune editorials have called for the resignation of Senator Roland Burris. I oppose their position. I should hope fr...
The Huffington Post | Posted 03.29.2009 | Chicago
Gov. Pat Quinn said Thursday that Illinois should hold a special election to replace Roland Burris if the beleaguered Senator doesn't resign in a two ...
Progress Illinois | Posted 03.29.2009 | Chicago
If the General Assembly or the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee isn't prepared to unseat Sen. Roland Burris, labor lawyer and 5th Congressional District c...
AP | JOHN O'CONNOR | Posted 03.29.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. Pat Quinn is reviewing how the son of embattled U.S. Sen. Roland Burris got a state job as a housing-agency lawyer unde...
AP | JOHN O'CONNOR | Posted 03.29.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. Pat Quinn is reviewing how the son of embattled U.S. Sen. Roland Burris got a state job as a housing-agency lawyer unde...
AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 03.29.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Despite the furor surrounding Sen. Roland Burris, experts say Illinois is unlikely to suffer much from having a senator who'...
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 03.24.2009 | Chicago
A political strategist described the Commerce Secretary as, in essence, a deal maker. Burris apparently tried to make a deal to get that senate seat. Perhaps he could try to make a few more deals on the public's behalf.
AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 03.24.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Federal authorities interviewed U.S. Sen. Roland Burris on Saturday as they continued their corruption investigation of former Gov. Ro...
Chicago Tribune | Rick Pearson and John Chase | Posted 03.21.2009 | Chicago
Embattled U.S. Sen. Roland Burris defended himself today in the midst of the multiple probes into the circumstances surrounding his appointment by for...
Associated Press | Posted 03.21.2009 | Chicago
ATHENS, Greece -- U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says he believes the testimony Roland Burris gave to Illinois lawmakers about his appointment to the U.S. Sena...
Chicago Sun-Times | Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 03.21.2009 | Chicago
State Rep. John Fritchey (D-Chicago) said he had no interest in protecting Roland Burris when the now-senator appeared before the Illinois House impea...
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 03.21.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Should he resign? Can he be forced out? Will he face criminal charges? Illinoisans who thought they had put one big mess behind them ...
AP | JOHN O'CONNOR | Posted 03.20.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — U.S. Sen. Roland Burris now acknowledges attempting to raise money for ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich _ an explosive twist in h...
The Huffington Post | Posted 03.20.2009 | Chicago
U.S. Sen. Roland Burris said Tuesday that he is open to a Senate ethics investigation into how he came to be appointed by impeached former Gov. Rod Bl...
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 03.20.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — U.S. Sen. Roland Burris insisted Monday he voluntarily sent state lawmakers an affidavit outlining contacts with ousted Gov. Rod Blago...
Chicago Tribune | Rick Pearson, John Chase and Ray Long | Posted 03.20.2009 | Chicago
Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan led a growing chorus of Democratic officials Monday calling for a deeper investigation of U.S. Sen. Roland Burris' ex...
Stanton Peele | Posted 03.19.2009 | Chicago
Blagojevitis involves a cognitive confusion over the two great scandal-suppression techniques all public figures learn: "deny, deny, deny," and "confess, apologize, and move on."
AP | Posted 03.19.2009 | Chicago
U.S. Sen. Roland Burris made plans for what he calls a "listening tour" of Illinois several weeks before the latest wave of controversy broke about hi...
AP | Posted 03.19.2009 | Chicago
The following is the text of U.S. Sen. Roland Burris' affidavit to Illinois state Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, chairman of the Illinois House impeachmen...
Associated Press | Posted 04.14.2009 | Chicago