President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday joined others calling for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to resign, distancing himself further from the unfolding scandal over allegations that the governor ...

WASHINGTON -- A report issued by Barack Obama's White House transition team concluded that the president-elect had no contact with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich or his office and no one acting on ...

He wanted the benefit of the doubt. What Rod Blagojevich got was what started his downfall in the first place: nothing. Not a single vote to keep his job. Nothing in return for appointing Barack Obama ...

After ten days of deliberating, the jury in the Rod Blagojevich corruption trial has declared him guilty "on 17 counts, not guilty of one count and one with no verdict announced in court Monday, with ...

CHICAGO - President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday joined others calling for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to resign over allegations that the governor schemed to barter Obama's vacant Senate seat ...

CHICAGO -- An appeals court vacated five convictions and threw out the sentence of former Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday afternoon. The rest of Blagojevich's convictions were affirmed by the 7th ...

CHICAGO — FBI wiretaps reveal former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was playing political games with an Illinois U.S. senate seat almost immediately upon the election of Barack Obama to the presidency. "You're ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- In an eleventh hour letter to U.S. District Court Judge James Zagel filed on the eve of her husband's re-sentencing, former Illinois first lady Patti Blagojevich wrote "I am pleading ...

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 ...

Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Monday that it was stupid for him to tell Esquire magazine that he's "blacker than Barack Obama" and that he doesn't believe it anyway.

Rod Blagojevich's interview with Scott Raab in Esquire is captivating--but perhaps not in the way the former Illinois governor was hoping. In a monologue so colorful as to make Raab "stipulate ... for ...

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has new hope of being released from prison early. Last week, President Trump argued that Blagojevich was treated unfairly, convicted on political corruption ...