Jury deliberations are approaching the one-week mark at the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan ...

The Illinois-based Dirksen Congressional Center ... who brought both humanity and dignity to the position of U.S. Senator," Dirksen Center Executive Director Tiffany White says.

Illinois state Senator Li Arellano, Jr (R-Dixon) has been appointed as the Republican Spokesperson for the Illinois Senate’s ...

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it begins to add up to real money.” That observation is attributed to the late Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, who was expressing ...

The mellifluent, loquacious, rumpled, dimpled, damp, and wondrous Wizard of Ooze has done it again; Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen has confounded nearly everyone by announcing that he will place ...

BOLINGBROOK, IL — Bolingbrook High School ... sons of William Randolph Hearst and the senate leadership of the day -- Senators Kuchel, Mansfield, Dirksen and Humphrey – in response to the ...