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U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., speaks during the Polk County Democrats Steak Fry on Sept. 30, 2017, in Des Moines, Iowa.

Lawmaker calls sexual harassment ‘talk of’ Washington ahead of vote to require training

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos said her recent dinners out with other women in Congress have included trading stories about the sexual harassment they and others have endured. Bustos, a Moline...

Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., speaks as the House Ways and Means Committee begins the markup process of the GOP's tax overhaul on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 6, 2017.

How Illinois’ delegation voted on the Republican tax plan

August 22, 2019 at 1:40 a.m.

Lawmakers from Illinois split along party lines Thursday as a Republican-authored tax bill was approved by the U.S. House. U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam, a Wheaton Republican, joined six other House...

Republican U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam says he's "running on tax reform," calling the current code "indefensible."

Roskam on tax reform: ‘Either get this done’ or it ‘will be the lost opportunity of a lifetime’

May 31, 2019 at 4:08 p.m.

Republican U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam said on Tuesday that he has so much faith in his party’s proposed tax overhaul that he’ll be campaigning on the issue leading up to...

U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., shown in May 2017, says Roy Moore, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Alabama, "needs to step aside now."

Illinois GOP lawmaker: ‘Republican Party ought to disown every aspect’ of Roy Moore

August 22, 2019 at 1:38 a.m.

Two Republican lawmakers from Illinois have called on U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama to end his campaign in the wake of allegations of decades-old sexual misconduct with a...

Assistant U.S. Attorney John Lausch speaks with reporters at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse on Aug. 11, 2008, in Chicago. Lausch was confirmed as the next U.S. attorney in Chicago by the U.S. Senate on Nov. 9, 2017.

Lausch confirmed as next U.S. attorney based in Chicago

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Joliet native John Lausch to be the next U.S. attorney based in Chicago, moving him into a coveted, demanding job in a city with...

U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker talks with the baiduhai editorial board on Dec. 16, 2014.

Former Commerce chief Pritzker shifted assets to kids’ trust, Paradise Papers show

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

Chicago billionaire and former Commerce Department secretary Penny Pritzker turns up in the Paradise Papers, a trove of records published this week by a global network of journalists examining leaked...

Tony Podesta, speaks to Associated Press reporters in Philadelphia on Sept. 28, 2004.

Chicagoans in Russia probe: An ‘excellent guy,’ a Prada-loving lobbyist and a Clinton email hunter

May 31, 2019 at 4:08 p.m.

Three men with Chicago ties have emerged in starkly different ways over the course of the far-reaching investigations into Russian meddling in last year's presidential contest. Most recently, it's the...

Former Trump campaign adviser, DePaul alum from Chicago pleads guilty to lying to FBI

August 22, 2019 at 1:27 a.m.

The 30-year-old Chicago man who entered the first guilty plea in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of the Russian government’s efforts to interfere with the 2016 election is just a...

Ex consejero de Trump y graduado de DePaul en Chicago, se declara culpable de mentir al FBI

December 18, 2018 at 1:11 a.m.

Un ex residente de Chicago de 30 años, investigado por el fiscal especial Robert Mueller en la investigación sobre los esfuerzos del gobierno ruso para interferir con las elecciones de...

Two intelligence committees interested in Peter W. Smith, who sought Clinton emails from Russian hackers

May 31, 2019 at 4:08 p.m.

Months after Lake Forest businessman Peter W. Smith's suicide in a Minnesota hotel, both the U.S. Senate and House intelligence committees are examining his self-described efforts to contact Russian hackers...

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