Dan Hynes

In the end, Dan Hynes' political pedigree did him remarkably little good in his quest for the U.S. Senate, providing what Democratic politicians said Wednesday was just the latest bit of proof that the party machine is no longer the centrally controlled...

Amid anticipation of a low-turnout election compounded by iffy weather, candidates for Illinois U.S. Senate nominations wound up the final campaign day Monday with cross-state marathons. Also facing voters on the ballot in Tuesday's Republican and...

Although most of the leading Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate support the federal No Child Left Behind Act's overriding goal of increasing accountability in public schools, they uniformly blast how the new law is underfunded and vow to increase...

State Sen. Barack Obama claims the mantle of a reformer, but early last month the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate spent $17,191 in state taxpayer money on a mailer that had the look and feel of a campaign flier. The mailing went out just days before a...

Illinois' candidates for U.S. Senate are keeping pace with each another in raising campaign cash, with Republican Jack Ryan raising about $500,000 since last month's primary and Barack Obama raising about $432,000 in the same period. But since the...