Tony Rezko

'The Good Wife': Suspicious Minds

2009-10-14 16:34:11

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What caused McCain's poll numbers to fall?

2008-11-03 00:00:00

Today's question: What has been the most important development of the campaign thus far? What has been the biggest factor in the last week of campaigning? All week, Dan Schnur and Bruce E. Cain discuss the presidential and local elections. Wall Street...

Obama donor received a state grant

2008-04-27 00:00:00

After an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2000, Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama faced serious financial pressure: numerous debts, limited cash and a law practice he had neglected for a year. Help arrived in early 2001 from a significant new legal...

Kass: Junior lacked discipline to make it in Chicago

2013-02-17 00:00:00

This being Chicago, where political dynasties have their hands kissed by journalism and commerce, expect the following about former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, Sandi, the former 7th Ward alderman: Lamentations for what might have been for...

Republicans afraid of the storm? Come to Chicago

2012-08-24 00:00:00

With Tropical Storm Isaac threatening to turn into a hurricane and menace the Republican National Convention in Tampa early next week, Republicans must make a decision. They could just get sloshed on rum, margaritas and whiskey and ride out the storm...

Recovering and rebooting after Campaign 2012

2012-11-09 16:32:47

Fairy tale

2012-08-29 16:32:16

Recovering and rebooting after 2012

2012-11-11 00:00:00

Goodbye to Seamus, the Irish setter that 29 years ago rode 650 miles in a crate strapped to the roof of Mitt Romney's family station wagon, and to Rafalca, Romneys' Olympic-caliber dancing horse. Goodbye to President Barack Obama's "you didn't build...

Kass: Have mercy, your honor, for Illinois

2012-09-30 00:00:00

To the Honorable U.S. District Judge James Zagel Dirksen Federal Courthouse, 219 S. Dearborn St., Chicago Dear Judge Zagel: I'm not some Indonesian orphan, or a young man suffering from cerebral palsy, or a Chinese political asylum seeker. And I'm...

10 things you might not know about Syria

2012-08-05 00:00:00

Syria, a great and ancient land, is being ravaged by civil war, with government forces using heavy weapons against rebels in the major city of Aleppo. Here are some facts about a little-understood people and country: 1 Syria is commonly considered a...

Sununu blasts Obama, brings up Rezko ties

2012-08-30 14:02:00

TAMPA, Fla. — The combative and blunt-speaking John Sununu woke up Illinois’ GOP delegation on the final day of the Republican National Convention by tossing some major broadsides at President Barack Obama, even suggesting convicted influence-...

Sununu hammers Obama

2012-08-31 00:00:00

— The combative and blunt-speaking John Sununu woke up Illinois' GOP delegation on the final day of the Republican National Convention by tossing some major broadsides at President Barack Obama, even suggesting that convicted influence-peddler...

Tony Rezko's attorney Joe Duffy speaks to reporters at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago today after Rezko was sentenced to 10� years in prison.

2011-11-22 00:00:00

leave the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago after he was sentenced to 10 1/2 years in prison. Several family members called out 'we love you" to Rezko as he was led away. "That's what an honest man deserves in this country!" one relative shouted outside the courtroom.

2011-11-22 00:00:00

speaks to reporters at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago after Antoin "Tony" Rezko was sentenced to 10 1/2 years in prison for extorting millions of dollars from firms seeking state business or regulatory approval. Fitzgerald called St. Eve's decision a "stiff" but "appropriate sentence.

2011-11-22 00:00:00