Former Illinois House Republican Leader Jim Durkin acknowledged that former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is now part of a ...

The former Illinois governor, himself pardoned by Trump, has turned to pardon lobbying. His latest cause is a former Indiana ...

In 2011, Blagojevich was convicted on 17 counts of corruption while governor of Illinois and sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich asserts the Democratic Party is suffering from a 'virus of socialism' that is spreading ...

These days, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is enjoying his second chance at making a 'good living.' The Democrat traded a 50,000sq ft mansion for a 6-by-8 prison cell after he was caught on ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich got a new lifeline on Thursday when President Donald Trump said he would consider pardoning or commuting his sentence on his federal corruption conviction. The ...

CHICAGO -- A former chief fund-raiser for ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich told a police officer before he died that he overdosed on a prescription drug, the mayor of the south Chicago suburb of ...

Other Facts: Last name is pronounced Bluh-GOY-uh-vitch. His father, Rade, was a prisoner of war for four years in a Nazi camp during World War II. Timeline: 1986-1988 - Assistant state's attorney in ...