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When the White House announced Chicago would be the first American city outside Washington to host the NATO and G-8 summits, word got out that new Mayor Rahm Emanuel had lobbied Vice President Joe Biden for it when he attended Emanuel's inauguration in May.
In a July 6 story about Tammy Duckworth announcing her plans to run for Congress, The Associated Press erroneously reported that she is 37 years old. She is 43 years old.
Surrounded by fields that grow corn, soybeans, melons and potatoes, this tiny rural village is 65 miles from Chicago but light years away from the big city. Still, St. Anne and a lot of the farm country around it has now been dragged into the metropolis as part of an ambitious political strategy focused on the 2012 national elections.
Former President Bill Clinton had some good jobs news Wednesday for Joplin, as the southwest Missouri city works to recover from a devastating tornado.
Blue and white 2012 signs plaster the walls but most of the desks are empty at President Barack Obama's new re-election headquarters in downtown Chicago that his campaign showed off Thursday.
Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel's choice to lead Chicago police promised Monday to have "cops' backs" and to earn the right to wear the city's police uniform, both issues that sparked criticism for his predecessor.
President Barack Obama's relationship with his hometown may be best described as a long-distance love affair. He lavishes attention on it from afar and proud Chicago pines for its hometown hero, though the two rarely see each other.
As Republican governors across the U.S. gain momentum with conservative agendas, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has stood out for signing a string of laws over the past three months achieving longstanding liberal goals: abolishing the death penalty, legalizing civil unions and raising income taxes.
Illinois abolished the death penalty Wednesday, more than a decade after the state imposed a moratorium on executions out of concern that innocent people could be put to death by a justice system that had wrongly condemned 13 men.
Democrat Pat Quinn has been sworn in to a full term as Illinois governor, two years after he got the job when his predecessor was kicked out of office and left behind an immense budget crisis.
Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel officially announced his candidacy for mayor of Chicago Saturday, promising to fight any tax increase for city residents.
Gov. Pat Quinn said Tuesday that an income tax increase to help fund Illinois schools is the top priority as the state struggles with a budget deficit that could soon reach $15 billion.
Gov. Pat Quinn's quest to become the elected leader of Illinois was fulfilled Friday when his Republican challenger conceded the state's closest governor's race in decades, leaving Quinn to argue he has a mandate to push a tax increase in the face of one of the nation's worst state budget problems.
In the final days before the Nov. 2 election, Democrats and Republicans are leaning on party heavyweights, energizing their bases and looking for swing voters in the high-profile races for President Barack Obama's old Senate seat and Illinois governor.
Black ministers, politicians and business leaders are scrambling to unify their community behind one candidate in Chicago's wide-open mayoral race, which already features a former White House chief of staff, as many as four congressmen and a sheriff among those preparing to run.
Illinois' prison chief, who became a political liability to Gov. Pat Quinn during an election year because of a secret prisoner release program he oversaw, is stepping down, the governor said Thursday.
President Barack Obama is coming home next month to fundraise for Democrat Alexi Giannoulias (jeh-NOO'-lee-ehs), after the Illinois state treasurer brought in significantly less money than his Republican opponent in the race for Obama's old Senate seat.
Diners in China could soon help control the Asian carp that are infesting Illinois waterways and threatening the Great Lakes.
The Chicago City Council approved building the city's second Walmart store on Wednesday, a victory that overcame labor opposition and promises jobs on the city's struggling South Side.
The fight over building more Walmarts in the city of Chicago has spilled over into the Illinois governor's race, with Republican Bill Brady joining with an influential black minister Wednesday to support the big box chain's expansion.
The corruption trial of ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich — for allegedly trying to sell President Barack Obama's own Senate seat — is a distant but unwelcome headache for the White House.
Gov. Pat Quinn signed a telecommunications law Tuesday that guarantees consumers low-cost options for landline telephone service while freeing companies from some state oversight.
The candidates in one of the nation's most closely watched Senate races aren't saying much about health care, the Gulf oil spill or even the economy. Instead, they're discussing who's the least trustworthy.
The state is moving forward with a plan to sell a northwestern Illinois prison to the federal government, though Gov. Pat Quinn said Friday it was "less likely" that Guantanamo Bay detainees would be housed there.
A group of Democratic legislators spoke up Monday in favor of further cost-cutting as lawmakers resumed their efforts to piece together a new spending plan from the wreckage of Illinois' budget.
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