President Donald Trump has pardoned former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat who served eight years in prison over corruption charges before it was cut short by Trump during his first term ...

Blagojevich, 68, has never applied for a pension and has not asked for a refund of the $101,000 he contributed during his years as a state lawmaker and governor, Blair said. Blagojevich, however ...

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich says he is "profoundly grateful" to President Donald Trump for pardoning him. Blagojevich spent nearly eight years in prison on corruption charges ...

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 ...

US President Donald Trump pardoned former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat who served eight years in prison in a corruption case. Earlier also, his sentence was cut short by Trump ...

Blagojevich, who was a Democrat while in office, supported Trump in the 2024 election and attended last July's GOP Convention.

Blagojevich was a rare Illinois politician who never took a bribe, gift or loan from any supporter, and he never took a penny from his campaign fund. His main achievements as governor — the All ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich speaks to reporters before entering his home in Ravenswood Monday. President Donald Trump pardoned the former governor Monday. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share ...

a Democrat who voted for Blagojevich's impeachment when she served in the Illinois House, said the former governor was "unworthy" of a pardon. Treasurer Mike Frerichs, a Democrat, voted to ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order pardoning Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor who was sentenced to 14 years in prison before Trump commuted his sentence in 2020.

Back in early 2009, Chicago’s storied Second City comedy theater created a satirical musical spoof of a former governor of Illinois, “Rod Blagojevich, Superstar.” “My party, my party ...