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Trump has pardoned or commuted the sentences of 16 people or companies with fines totalling at least $102,647,458—money that ...

Gov. JB Pritzker is hiring. Job duties include cutting ribbons and influencing state policy. Opportunities for promotion? Pending the outcome of the 2028 presidential race. As the governor begins ...

He’s proposed to step up pension funding by tapping debt-service money allotted to pension-obligation bonds enacted under former Gov. Rod Blagojevich as those bonds are retired. But the latter is only ...

On June 27, 1957, Hurricane Audrey slammed into coastal Louisiana and Texas as a Category 4 storm, causing as many as 600 ...

Dennis Rader, the so-called "BTK" (bind, torture, kill) killer, pleaded guilty to 10 slayings in the Wichita, Kan., area. He was sentenced to life in prison.

Reality stars, rappers and disgraced politicians have received some of the high-profile pardons doled out by the president ...

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich says he is "profoundly grateful" to President Donald Trump for pardoning him. Blagojevich spent nearly eight years in prison on corruption charges, for ...

Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich remains an immutable character in Illinois’ political lore following President Donald Trump’s pardon.

Perhaps the most telling moment of the news conference Rod Blagojevich held hours after President Donald Trump granted the disgraced ex-Illinois governor a full pardon came even before he answered ...

A day after former Governor Rod Blagojevich received a presidential pardon, former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is calling for millions more.

Among Illinois political leaders, Republicans and Democrats found rare common ground in their reaction to news that President Donald Trump has pardoned former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, convicted on ...