Richard Durbin News

Three months after banks scrapped plans for debit card fees, it's becoming clearer how they intend to recoup money lost in the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.

Greene County States Attorney Matt Goetten has received a major endorsement in his bid for the Democratic nomination in the 13th Congressional District race.

An Illinois company has received millions of dollars worth of earmarks from the office of home-state Sen.

Illinois government offices will be closed Monday in observance of President Abraham Lincoln's birthday.

Proceedings of the Supreme Court, long kept out of the view of most Americans, would be televised under a bipartisan bill approved on Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Abraham Lincoln would have turned 203 years old Sunday. Here is a list of some of the area events in honor of the birthday boy: Landscape photographer Robert Shaw will present a program titled "Retracing Lincoln's Journey" at Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield at 8:30 a.m. Sunday.

The highly contentious Durbin Amendment went into effect only four months ago, but its effects are already reverberating throughout the banking sphere .

To get into the U.S. Senate hearings, one confronts security. Unlike other D.C. government buildings that require just a scan, the Senate demands you turn over your cellphone, camera and all keys.

While the United States should be pushing alternatives to the traditional four-year college, it also should be pushing alternatives to the way we gauge preparedness for the workplace.

Ross Powell, from Northern Illinois University speaks about research he's doing in the arctic at the 3rd annual STEM Summit in the Little Theater at Oak Park-River Forest High School on Feb.

Democrats are emboldened enough by their political turn of fortune that party leaders are laying payroll tax cut contretemps at the feet of Republicans rooting for further economic strife.

Three months after banks scrapped plans for debit card fees, it's becoming clearer how they intend to recoup money lost in the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.

The Northfield Township Democratic Organization will not endorse aA 10 th A Congressional District DemocraticA candidate for the March 20 primaryA after attacks by advocates of certain contenders left no consensus choiceA Saturday in Northbrook.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - Thirty-one members of Congress prodded the Army Corps of Engineers to consider a multibillion-dollar plan released last week for cutting a Chicago-area link between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds to stop migration of Asian carp and other invasive species.

Thirty-one members of Congress prodded the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday to consider a multi-billion-dollar plan released this week for cutting a Chicago-area link between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds to stop migration of Asian carp and other invasive species.

Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are expected to vote on a new transportation bill, which may prohibit the transporting of horses in double-decker trailer rigs.

Last week Leon Panetta , the National Secretary of Defense announced plans to begin cutting $847 billion dollars from the defense budget over the next ten years.

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin , Assistant majority leader of the Senate, announced yesterday, the awarding of more than $2 million in Department of Homeland Security Assistance to Firefighters Grants program, to twelve fire departments and fire protection districts in Illinois.

U.S. Senate Democrats seeking an agreement to extend a payroll tax cut through 2012 say they would consider reducing emergency jobless benefits in states hit hard by the recession from the current maximum of 99 weeks.

For years the U.S. Senate has been investigating the recruiting practices of some for-profit colleges.