Former President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois.

The former Illinois governor was convicted on multiple charges of corruption in 2011. He served eight years in prison before ...

2007: U.S. Sen. Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the presidency outside the Old State Capitol in Springfield, which was the site of Abraham Lincoln’s June 16, 1858, “House Divided” speech.

Instead of signaling a turning of the corner in pursuit of a more perfect union, the elevation of a Black man into the White ...