The man who will pick President-elect Barack Obama's successor in the U.S. Senate is talking to someone interested in the job: U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
A scorecard to keep up with the Illinois Senate Appointment and info for Blago Blogs.
In a move intended to force public testimony from President-elect Barack Obama's inner circle, a lawyer for Gov.
In an effort to prove the Illinois governor's innocence, his lawyers ask the Illinois House panel to subpoena two of Obama's top aides and Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
CHICAGO. Dec. 16 -- Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) told federal investigators that Gov.
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s office confirmed Tuesday that the son of the civil rights leader has been providing information to federal authorities for the past five years about his "personal knowledge" of apparent corruption by Illinois government officials – but not Gov.
Shortly after his 2002 election, Gov. Rod Blagojevich told Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. he didn't appoint the congressman's wife as lottery director because he had refused him a $25,000 campaign donation, a person familiar with the conversation told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
The charges against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich are, or should be, a gift for the Democratic Party.
The arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on charges of seeking to sell President-elect Barack Obama's Senate seat has been met with predictable outrage by newspaper and editorial writers around the country.
Without doubt, some GOP hacks across the country have smiles on their faces right about now. They think the arrest of Rod Blagojevich is a godsend for their party, a chance to talk about something other than the daunting task of recovering from the Bush Recession.
A law enforcement official confirms that the person referred to in the federal criminal complaint against Gov. Rod Blagojevich as "Candidate 5" is Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.
Chicago Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) is the anonymous "Senate Candidate #5" whose emissaries Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich reportedly claimed offered up to a million dollars to name him to the U.S. Senate, federal law enforcement sources tell ABC News.
My goodness, this is one hell of a speaker. I cannot remember when I was moved by such a sincere, persuasive, inspirational and quite awesome speech for a long time. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
WASHINGTON — Nebraska Rep. Lee Terry quickly conceded that his chances of winning a fistfight against Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. would be "zero." Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., demonstrates his martial arts prowess in a slide show on his campaign Web site.
llinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., a member of the House of Representatives so Constitutionally-minded that he wrote a book on the subject, responded as a founding father would have to the news that President Bush had commuted the 30-month prison sentence of former White Hous …
(CBS) CHICAGO President George W. Bush commuted the 2 1/2 year sentence of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former White House aide convicted in a CIA leak scandal. As CBS 2's Katie McCall reports, there was negative reaction in Illinois to the announcement Monday.
From the article: On Wednesday, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. will officially announce the worst-kept secret in town: He has formed an exploratory committee to test a run in the February 2007 mayoral primary and will spend the coming months on a "listening tour," a la Hillary Clinton.