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Durbin opposes super PACs but benefits from one of them

June 17, 2018 at 4:57 a.m.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin long has criticized the loosening of limits on political spending, and blamed the Supreme Court last month for giving a "privileged clique and corporate titans the...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner greets churchgoers at New Beginnings Church of Chicago, after Pastor Corey Brooks allegedly received death threats and the church was vandalized and $8,000 stolen from a charity box following Brooks' announcement of support for Rauner.

Rauner, Quinn take governor campaign to pulpit

May 15, 2019 at 2:21 p.m.

Republican challenger Bruce Rauner and Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn made their campaign pitches from the pulpit Sunday, visiting African-American churches as they compete for the critical black vote in the...

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), left, and state Sen. Jim Oberweis (R-Aurora) laugh while waiting to debate at ABC 7 studios in downtown Chicago. Oberweis is challenging Durbin for the Senate seat in the Nov. 4 election.

Durbin, Oberweis clash on immigration, health care in debate

May 21, 2019 at 1:57 p.m.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and challenger Jim Oberweis sparred Wednesday night in their first meeting on a formal debate stage, with the rivals arguing over whether the incumbent's experience is...

Sen. Dick Durbin, left, and his Republican challenger, state Sen. Jim Oberweis, will meet in their only formal debate on Wednesday night. Above, they spar in a meeting with the baiduhai's editorial board last month.

Durbin, Oberweis to meet in only formal debate

May 15, 2019 at 2:31 p.m.

Sen. Dick Durbin and his Republican challenger, state Sen. Jim Oberweis, will hold their only formal debate Wednesday night, less than two weeks before the Nov. 4 election. Durbin, the...

President Barack Obama casts his early vote Monday in Chicago at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Center.

Obama leaves town after casting early ballot

June 18, 2018 at 7:51 a.m.

President Barack Obama left Chicago on Monday evening after casting an early ballot, attending a political fundraiser and calling on Democrats to get mobilized as the Nov. 4 mid-term election...

Man in custody after 4 women found dead in Gary, Hammond

May 21, 2019 at 1:55 p.m.

Hammond police say they have a person of interest in custody in connection with the deaths of four women whose bodies were found over the weekend at various locations in...

Sen. Dick Durbin, left, and State Sen. Jim Oberweis, spar during a meeting with the baiduhai Editorial Board Monday, Sept. 29, 2014.

Senate candidates diverge on wage, tax issues

May 15, 2019 at 2:20 p.m.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says the middle class needs help. He supports raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, closing the pay gap between men and women and...

Camille Cardenas, left, and her mother, Lilia, hand out water in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood, near Mile 8 of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon.

Chicago enjoys ideal marathon weather

August 19, 2019 at 7:31 a.m.

Watching her sister-in-law jog across the Columbus Drive bridge at the start of the Chicago Marathon on Sunday morning was a bittersweet moment for Andrea Wilde. The Minneapolis woman was...

When interests overlap for Durbin, lobbyist wife

August 7, 2019 at 11:49 a.m.

Sen. Dick Durbin has long said that he and his wife, Loretta, an Illinois lobbyist, take pains to separate their work and avoid conflicts of interest. But a Tribune investigation...

Durbin ties Oberweis to tea party attacks

May 9, 2019 at 3:01 p.m.

Disbanding the Export-Import Bank, as critics of the embattled federal agency have sought to do in recent months, would hurt local businesses by cutting off access to customers abroad, Sen....

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