Trump pardons Rod Blagojevich, who tried to sell Obama’s vacated Senate seat. The former Illinois governor was convicted on multiple charges of corruption in 2011.

Like every other politician in Illinois, Gov. Rod Blagojevich waited for Barack Obama's call this summer. He told colleagues that he expected a speaking role at the 2008 Democratic National ...

Reporting from Chicago — Weeks before his federal corruption trial, ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich sought Thursday to tie his credibility to that of President Obama by asking that the ...

Barack Obama says he had no contact with Gov. Rod Blagojevich over his vacant Senate seat, but the sequence of events in the FBI complaint suggests he might have caught wind of the governor's ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's hopes for clemency from President Barack Obama now hinge on the next four days. CBS 2's Dana Kozlov takes a look at the chances his 14-year sentence will be ...

One of the last chances for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to win early release from federal prison rests on a pending decision by the man whose Senate seat Blagojevich was convicted of ...

It's been nearly three years since former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich stole the national spotlight after being arrested for dozens of counts of corruption, including attempting to sell then ...

Back in June of 2002, Rod Blagojevich was running for governor, giving up his seat in Congress, which was taken by Obama's new chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel. ... BARACK OBAMA: Right now my main ...

CHICAGO (AP) --A daughter of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is criticizing ex-President Barack Obama for not granting early release to her father, who's serving prison time for corruption ...

In the fantasy Illinois that America knows all too well, the political redeemer was found as an infant, floating in a reed basket along the banks of the Chicago River. He came to manhood by drawing… ...

President Donald Trump on Monday granted a full and unconditional pardon to Rod Blagojevich, the disgraced former governor of Illinois who was convicted on multiple charges of corruption in 2011 ...