Anne Pramaggiore and three others were convicted of a nearly decade-long scheme to influence former Illinois House Speaker ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Rod Blagojevich continues to maintain his innocence after President Donald Trump commuted the former Illinois governor's sentence, releasing him from prison after serving more than ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Rod Blagojevich may not have a job yet, but the former Illinois governor says he's found a way to try to earn money more than a week after his early prison release. On Thursday, ...

CHICAGO — Nearly five years after commuting former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s federal prison sentence, President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to the disgraced former governor who was ...

Rod Blagojevich's pick to fill Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat was the first African-American to be elected to statewide office in Illinois, winning the first of three terms as comptroller in 1978.

Blagojevich on Tuesday announced he'd appointed former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to replace Obama in the Senate, ignoring warnings from Senate Democrats who say they will block anyone he ...

CHICAGO -- Rod Blagojevich returned home to Chicago early Wednesday, shaking hands and signing autographs after President Donald Trump cut short the 14-year prison sentence handed to the former ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich helps correct an injustice and is a proper use of the president’s pardon power. Blagojevich was a rare Illinois ...

How a top advisor turned on Blagojevich. December 12, 2008— -- For years, John Wyma has been one of Gov. Rod Blagojevich's closest allies. He served as Blagojevich's chief of staff in Congress ...

FILE - Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, right, speaks, Oct. 21, 2020, during a news conference in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose 14-year sentence for political corruption charges he commuted during his first term. The Republican ...