Mike Quigley

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio headlined a suburban fundraiser on Friday, helping raise money for a Republican legal challenge to the state's new Democratic-drawn congressional map that could reverse the GOP’s gains in last year’s...

The fierce pace of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's fundraising tapered to a trickle once he was elected, with only $91,000 in contributions since April 1, according to campaign finance reports filed Friday that showed him with more than $1.5 million left in the...

Several of Illinois' Republican members of Congress came to Chicago to testify today on the first day of their legal challenge to a new Democratic-drawn congressional map. Rep. John Shimkus was the first of four Republican incumbent congressmen to...

Despite the hot rhetoric and in-your-face finger-pointing over the debt ceiling, most Illinois members of Congress expect the drama to die down and at least …...

Republican congressmen and a GOP-backed group filed a federal lawsuit today challenging the redrawing of the state’s congressional boundaries by Democrats in Springfield, alleging the …...

Sigh… I would like to say I’m surprised by the latest media-grabbing ‘campaign’ from the bigoted hate group Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), but all I can really muster is an exasperated sigh and maybe an eye-roll....

Posted by Rick Pearson at 8:11 p.m.; updated at 12:58 p.m. Friday SPRINGFIELD --- Senate Democrats unveiled the full details of their congressional map today and it shows three Republicans forced to run against Democrats and three open districts in......

WASHINGTON--Gov. Pat Quinn said today that he and Sen. Dick Durbin are seeking a letter from the White House saying the vacant state prison in Thomson would not house detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, so plans could advance to sell the facility to...

WASHINGTON—The reigning Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks will visit President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama at the White House on March 11. The visit, at 2 p.m. Chicago time, will see the president salute his hometown hockey...