I support President Trump in many ways,” state Sen. Jil Tracy (R-Quincy) said, “but I don’t think he understands that this just signals that the corruption in Illinois is just accepted, rather than it ...

Blagojevich was convicted in 2011 on charges that included seeking to sell an appointment to then-President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat and trying to shake down a children’s hospital. Blagojevich ...

Western Illinois University is looking for an upgrade to its Quad Cities campus. State Senate Bill 1308, introduced by State Sen. Mike Halpin, D-Rock Island, could potentially bring $7.2 million ...

Blagojevich was commuted after serving nearly eight of his 14-year sentence in February 2020, during President Trump's first ...

Illinois farmers could take a big economic hit from China’s retaliatory tariffs and the freeze on USAID’s programs. Illinois ...

President Donald Trump has pardoned former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat who served eight years in prison ...

The Republican president signed the pardon on Monday and called the Democratic former governor “a very fine person” who “was ...

Former Decatur mayor and Illinois AFL-CIO president Michael Carrigan is set for another five-year term on the Illinois ...

College Football Hall of Fame coach Jim Tressel, who won the 2002 national title at Ohio State University, has been nominated ...

Nearly five years after commuting former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s federal prison sentence, President Donald Trump ...

Orland Park says police will work with federal immigration agents when undocumented immigrants are charged or convicted of ...

The Senate voted largely along party lines Wednesday to confirm Tulsi Gabbard to serve as the director of national ...