Will help for homeowners facing foreclosure come too late? That is the fear of lawmakers meeting on Wednesday on Capitol Hill. Sen. Dick Durbin says ...
Posted 11.19.2008 | Chicago
Senator Dick Durbin was re-elected as Majority Whip, the Senate's second-highest leadership post. Read the release from his office: U.S. Sen. Dick Du...
ABC 7 | Posted 11.18.2008 | Chicago
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin will chair a hearing in Washington Wednesday on the foreclosure crisis. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart will be among those...
Posted 11.14.2008 | Chicago
Senator Dick Durbin had lunch with President-elect Barack Obama Friday and told reporters that they discussed a range of issues, including the makeup...
Posted 11.11.2008 | Chicago
Senator Dick Durbin briefly discussed his daughter's recent death after a Veteran's Day event at Camp Butler National Cemetery outside of Springfield...
Associated Press | Lindsey Tanner | Posted 11.04.2008 | Chicago
Democrat Dick Durbin is thanking Illinoisans for a third term in the U.S. Senate and for their support after the recent death of his daughter. Cash, e...
Posted 11.03.2008 | Chicago
Senator Durbin's office released the following statement about services for his daughter, Christine: Private funeral services for Christine Ann Durb...
CNN | Posted 11.01.2008 | Home
The daughter of Sen. Dick Durbin died Saturday from a congenital heart condition, the Illinois Democrat's office said. "Chris Durbin, 40, fought a he...
Posted 10.31.2008 | Chicago
UPDATE Gov. Blagojevich has been invited to the Grant Park rally, according to a note from the governor's office to Capitol Fax. Barack Obama's mo...
The Daily Beast | Scott Turow | Posted 10.31.2008 | Chicago
Chicago, my hometown, and far more significantly, that of Sen. Barack Obama, appears poised with his election as president--pooh, pooh, pooh!--to beco...
Progress Illinois | Posted 10.30.2008 | Chicago
With their sights set on winning a filibuster-proof, 60-seat majority, Senate Democrats are giving generously to the party's fundraising arm. But it's...
Chicago Sun-Times | Carol Marin | Posted 10.29.2008 | Chicago
t was Rahm Emanuel's suggestion, actually. "Why," asked the Chicago congressman, "don't you look at this presidential election through a different len...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Kevin McDermott and Virginia Young | Posted 10.27.2008 | Chicago
U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin, a Democrat representing Illinois, retains a strong lead against Republican challenger Steve Sauerberg in a new poll. The po...
AP | Dennis Conrad | Posted 10.17.2008 | Chicago
WASHINGTON - Members of Illinois' congressional delegation, no matter their party affiliation, head into the final weeks of the election season with h...
ABC 7 | Posted 10.14.2008 | Chicago
CHICAGO -- While a slumping economy is leaving many people struggling to balance the soaring costs of housing, gas, food, and health care, nearly 100,...
AP | Posted 10.10.2008 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is calling the gridlock among his fellow Democrats in Springfield embarrassing and fears it could lead to l...
AP | Posted 10.10.2008 | Chicago
Republican challenger Steve Sauerberg accused incumbent U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of endangering troops in Iraq by criticizing the treatment of prisoners ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics
The Obama campaign is jumping all over a line from John McCain, in which the Arizona Republican suggested that time in Washington had made it easier f...
Posted 08.28.2008 | Politics
Dick Durbin will speak tonight at Invesco Field at the Democratic Convention. Check back here for the text of the speech. ...
Josh Nelson | Posted 08.22.2008 | Politics
Can anyone explain to me why I am supposed to put up with leaders of the environmental movement and Democratic party praising a man who is an enemy of both?
Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 08.19.2008 | Chicago
When Alexi Giannoulias was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago in the mid-1990s, one of the guys he would play pick-up basketball games with...
Dan Johnson-Weinberger | Posted 08.17.2008 | Chicago
Proudly multi-racial, ruthlessly pragmatic, open to hustling newcomers and somewhat audacious, Chicago's unique culture is ascendant.
Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 08.14.2008 | Chicago
There are going to be hundreds of parties during the Democratic convention in Denver; one hot ticket is for "Chicago night" sponsored by Sen. Dick Dur...
Grant Cardone | Posted 07.29.2008 | Business
America has become a country of people that waste too much. We have gotten away from exactly what made this country great in the first place -- production!
Reuters | Posted 07.10.2008 | Green
A top U.S. Democratic senator said in a newspaper interview published Wednesday that he would consider supporting opening up new areas for offshore oi...
In the first two weeks since the election, President-elect...
Two months before he leaves office, Sen. Chuck Hagel is increasingly
It appears in this video that President Bush's approval is in a sorrier state...
Dear Senator Lieberman, Congratulations! You got away with it! So despite...
Today, Al Qaeda's number 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri,...
It is said that Barack Obama has read Doris Kearns Goodwin's book, Team of Rivals,...
"As Sarah Palin settles back into her job as the state's chief executive, a new...
Katie Couric discussed her infamous interview with Sarah Palin Wednesday night on...
President-elect Obama is still adjusting to life with the Secret Service and the loss...
John McCain is returning Jackson Browne's August lawsuit complaining about McCain using his...
WASHINGTON — The $25 billion rescue plan for the auto industry, desperately sought...
With the Obamas' impending move to Washintong DC in January, many have begun to speculate...
President-elect Obama's plan to put a million electric vehicles on the road in 10 years...
NBC 5 | Posted 11.19.2008 | Chicago