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U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., and U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill.

Kirk trails Duckworth in campaign cash

May 15, 2019 at 3:44 p.m.

Republican Sen. Mark Kirk raised more than $1 million in campaign cash in the second quarter of the year, far less than the $2.7 million collected by his Democratic rival,...

Ex-Illinois Rep. Walsh says Twitter took down Dallas tweet ‘Watch out Obama’

August 18, 2019 at 3:51 p.m.

Former Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh, now a radio talk show host, declared "This is now war" and called for President Barack Obama to "watch out" in a Twitter post reacting...

Illinois Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, seen here at an event in Maywood on July 1, 2016, did not attend a meeting of Senate Republicans with Donald Trump on July 7.

Trump said to slam Kirk in GOP senators meeting

May 15, 2019 at 3:44 p.m.

For months, Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk has tried to bolster his difficult re-election bid by distancing himself from his party's polarizing presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump. On Thursday, the...

U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth delivers an address during the annual Midwest Regional Conference of EMILY's List, the nation's largest resource for women in politics, in Chicago on June 6, 2016.

Duckworth raises $2.7 million in Senate bid against Kirk

May 15, 2019 at 3:44 p.m.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Duckworth of Illinois hauled in $2.7 million during the second quarter as she tries to unseat Republican Sen. Mark Kirk, her campaign said Thursday. Duckworth's...

Abner Mikva, a former Democratic U.S. representative, federal judge and White House adviser, is seen at his Chicago home in 2008.

Chicagoan Abner Mikva — lawmaker, judge, presidential adviser — dies at 90

May 22, 2019 at 10:07 p.m.

Abner Mikva was turned down in his first attempt at civic duty with a line that became embedded in Chicago's political lore, "We don't want nobody nobody sent." Undeterred, the...

First lady Michelle Obama, center, hugs Cambodian students at a high school that she visited with Bun Rany, the first lady of Cambodia, second right, on March 21, 2015, near Siem Reap, Cambodia, as part of her Let Girls Learn campaign.

Michelle Obama to announce nearly $100 million for education in Morocco

August 21, 2019 at 6:57 p.m.

First lady Michelle Obama is relying heavily on social media to tout an overseas trip tied to the Let Girls Learn campaign, which is aiming to get an estimated 62...

Michelle Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, June 1, 2016.

Michelle Obama departs Sunday for a 6-day overseas trip

June 10, 2018 at 11:49 a.m.

Michelle Obama departs on Sunday for a six-day trip to Africa and Europe to advocate for the "Let Girls Learn" initiative, White House officials said. The stops in Liberia and...

Rep. Bob Dold, an Illinois Republican, backs gun control bill

June 10, 2018 at 12:01 p.m.

Rep. Bob Dold sat out this week's sit-in in the House — all Republicans did — and on Friday he and a small group of colleagues sponsored a bill aimed...

U.S. Congresswoman Robin Kelly (D-IL 2nd District).

Rep. Kelly thinks gun control measures hard sell until after Nov. 8 elections

May 22, 2019 at 10:04 p.m.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly brought a blanket and a pillow to the 25 1/2 hour sit-in in the House of Representatives, but never slept in the boisterous chamber. She...

Charles Bolden, staff assistant of Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.), holds a poster with pictures of gun violence victims from Chicago as he walks towards the House Chamber on June 22, 2016.

Illinois Democrats join sit-in to demand U.S. House votes on gun control

August 21, 2019 at 6:52 p.m.

Democrats from Illinois spoke out Wednesday during a rare, raucous sit-in on the House floor, demanding votes on gun control. They threw decorum out the window and, with C-SPAN's camera...

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