CHICAGO (Reuters) - Still reeling from the loss of the late Edward Kennedy's Senate seat to Republicans in Massachusetts, Barack Obama's Democrats now face the prospect of losing the president's old Senate seat in Illinois. The Democratic candidate Alexi Giannoulias is trailing Republican Mark Kirk in opinion polls ahead of November's election in which Republicans are aiming ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his brother were charged Thursday in a fresh corruption indictment that contains no new allegations of misconduct but that prosecutors hope will help avoid delays to the start of Blagojevich's trial. The new indictment only adds charges based on the same ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a revised corruption indictment of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich ahead of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that may declare a law underpinning the case unconstitutional. Blagojevich was charged in April with 17 counts of racketeering, fraud, lying to investigators and other criminal activity tied to schemes that included trying to sell ...