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Kirk rides Republican wave into U.S. Senate

May 15, 2019 at 2:53 p.m.

Republican Mark Kirk captured Barack Obama's old U.S. Senate seat Tuesday, embarrassing the president in his home state by defeating Obama's political disciple, Democrat Alexi Giannoulias. As the night wore...

Bitter contest for Obama’s former Senate seat now up to voters

May 23, 2019 at 3:45 p.m.

The intensely-fought battle for the U.S. Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama is winding down as the two major candidates await the results this evening. Republican Mark Kirk...

Money rolls in, campaign ads roll on

August 22, 2021 at 11:19 p.m.

An unprecedented influx of political cash — most of it from outside Illinois — is feeding an inescapable wave of television attack ads aimed at manipulating voters in the final...

Kirk’s Senate campaign troubled by embellishment

August 18, 2019 at 8:15 p.m.

U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk fashions himself in the congressional vanguard of the battle against special interest spending, time and again boasting of how he led the successful charge to stop...

Kirk still leads Giannoulias in fundraising

August 22, 2021 at 11:12 p.m.

With a big assist from President Barack Obama, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias had his most successful fundraising period so far, but it was not enough to overcome the...

TV attack ads already at fever pitch in Illinois

August 22, 2021 at 11:04 p.m.

The first major wave of TV political attack advertising assaulted Chicago-area viewers last week, and the barrage is only expected to grow stronger as candidates in high-stakes U.S. Senate, governor...

Giannoulias attacks Kirk over Iraq war vote

August 22, 2021 at 10:56 p.m.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias on Tuesday said Republican Mark Kirk was " George Bush's architect" in the push for war against Iraq, a claim that at once overestimated...

Conflicting details in Kirk’s 1976 lake rescue

August 18, 2019 at 8:15 p.m.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk for a decade has told the story of how he nearly drowned when he was 16 while sailboating on Lake Michigan and how his...

Kirk apologizes for misstatements about military career

August 22, 2019 at 5:10 a.m.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk accepted responsibility Thursday for a series of misstatements about his Navy Reserve career, including that he served in the Gulf War, that he once...

Couple arrested in bat attack

August 22, 2021 at 10:00 p.m.

Heriberto Viramontes was itching to rob someone early Friday, police say, so he asked his girlfriend, Marcy Cruz, to drive him to Bucktown. She allegedly let him out of a...

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