u.s. senate

CHICAGO (AP) — One of the candidates who filed to run against U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk in the Republican primary won't be on the March ballot. The Illinois State Board of Elections on Thursday rejected nominating petitions from Elizabeth Pahlke of Arlington Heights...

John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network Some powerful Democrats in Illinois are backing different candidates in the party’s U.S. Senate primary. All the candidates have big-time backers: State Sen. Napoleon Harris (D-Harvey), has the endorsement of Illinois Senate President John Cullerton...

John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network The Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Illinois is garnering national attention, but whether the two announced candidates will debate is still up in the air. Democratic candidate Andrea Zopp says there hasn’t been any confirmation from her opponent, U...

John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network Whoever wins the Democratic nomination in next year's U.S. Senate race will have the support of U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). That's despite the close relationship Durbin has developed with U.S...

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...

There's much at stake on the November ballot here in Illinois, with the Governor's race taking top billing. But across the country, as we've discussed on the show, control of the U.S. Senate also is at stake. Recent polling gives Republicans a good shot at winning the 51 seats needed to make Mitch McConnell the new Senate majority leader...

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...

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...

Current State Senator Jim Oberweis is running for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Dick Durbin. You already might have seen our video interview with him, focusing on the lighter side of life. But we also spend almost 45 minutes on air talking about the issues in the campaign...

U.S. Senate candidate Jim Oberweis stopped by the WROK studios on Wednesday morning to discuss his campaign challenging the incumbent Democrat Dick Durbin. We spent the better part of 45 minutes talking with him about his background and the issues that matter to voters -- stop back tomorrow for the full audio from that interview...