An enduringly controversial play in Pete Rose’s long, Hall of Fame-caliber Major League Baseball career had a certain Donald Trump quality to it. It’s a baseball-political link between the president ...

Former Republican Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate campaign finance law, was ...

Imagine Chicago and Illinois without an effective local U.S. attorney’s office over the years. Michael Madigan, we believe, still would be Illinois House speaker. Ed Burke likely would be preening ...

Prosecutors in the Justice Department section that handles public corruption cases have been told the unit will be being ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich speaks to reporters before entering his home in Ravenswood Monday. President Donald Trump pardoned the former governor Monday. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share ...

Five years after his release from prison, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich still isn’t letting go of his conviction—and ...

Five years after his release from prison, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich still isn’t letting go of his conviction—and he now wants retribution. Trump's 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum ...

Аfter more than two decades, Nikola Blagojevic and Rod Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois whom Trump recently pardoned of corruption charges, met in their homeland, in the family home near ...

Election law expert Michael Dorf explains whether ex-governor Rod Blagojevich could run for office again after his Trump pardon. Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Professor Nadav Shoked discusses ...

After the now-pardoned Rod Blagojevich was arrested by the feds in a pre-dawn raid on unseemly corruption charges and was impeached by Madigan’s House, then-Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn appointed a blue-ribbon ...