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John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network The two major candidates for U.S. Senate touched on some new topics in their final joint appearance of the campaign. Among them: Whether the NFL should keep its tax-exempt status. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill...

CHICAGO (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and Republican state Sen. Jim Oberweis are set to meet for the first debate of the U.S. Senate race. The candidates are scheduled to face off Wednesday at a debate sponsored by ABC 7, the League of Women Voters and Univision Chicago...

CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says he'll seek an investigation into how a contract employee was able to sabotage a regional control center and bring Chicago's two international airports to a halt. Durbin told The Associated Press on Sunday that he will ask inspectors general at the U...

As promised in yesterday's post, here's the full audio from our Monday morning conversation with State Sen. Jim Oberweis, who's running for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Dick Durbin. Most recent polling shows the race is competitive with the incumbent hovering around 50 percent support...

U.S. Senate candidate Jim Oberweis stopped by our studios this morning to talk about the state of his campaign with about six weeks to go until Election Day. Polling generally shows the Republican down by 7-12 points, within striking distance of the incumbent, Sen...

John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) says redeploying ground forces into Iraq won’t be a part of President Obama’s new plans to combat militant groups in that country. The president is set to deliver a speech tonight on how the U...

Four years ago, no one though of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold as a vulnerable incumbent. However, in that Republican wave year of 2010 a businessman named Ron Johnson slowly began to put the race on the radar screen of political pundits across the country...

State Senator Jim Oberweis had quite the weekend in his big to unseat incumbent U.S. Senator Dick Durbin. A Chicago Sun-Times/We Ask America poll showed that Oberweis had pulled to within 7 points of Durbin, while an internal Oberweis poll released this morning had it a 6-point race...

John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network With no action on the problem of Central American children turning up at the U.S. border likely to come from Congress, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)  says it’s up to the president to act on his own...

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin really hates businesses that even think about trying to legally escape the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world here in the United States. The Illinois Democrat wrote threatening letters to Walgreen executives because the company was discussing a corporate inversion...