Dick Durbin

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she will step down from her role as the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Former Vice President Joe Biden has been projected by NBC News as the winner of the 2020 presidential election, and Illinois elected officials are offering their congratulations on Saturday. Biden was projected as the president-elect on Saturday by NBC News, as the media outlet projected that Biden would secure Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes. President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris…

Sen. Dick Durbin won a fifth term over four challengers on Tuesday, NBC News projects.

The five candidates for U.S. Senate from Illinois squared off for the first time in a forum that was streamed on NBC 5 and Telemundo Chicago’s digital platforms Friday evening. The forum is scheduled to air on both TV stations on Sunday. The virtual forum includes all five candidates for the Senate seat on the ballot in the 2020 general…

The only statewide race happening in Illinois this election cycle is for U.S. Senate. Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Springfield, is running for reelection, seeking a fifth term in the office he first won in 1996.

The Senate will vote on the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court on Oct. 22, 2020.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., asks Judge Amy Coney Barrett whether she had seen video of the police killing of George Floyd and how that impacted her family. Barrett, who has two Black adopted children, said the footage had a “very personal” effect on her family and she and her children wept over his death.

Here’s a look at nine of the biggest races you should be watching across Illinois in the 2020 general election.

President Donald Trump briefly left Walter Reed Medical Center in his motorcade to salute at supporters outside the hospital. Trump was admitted to Walter Reed for COVID treatment on Friday. Doctors have said the president is doing “well” and could return to the White House as early as Monday.

Hours after President Donald Trump announced that he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus, several Illinois elected officials – many of whom have been critical of his response to the pandemic – wished him well.

Both Illinois Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth released statements voicing their concerns following President Trump’s nomination of Chicago Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court Saturday. “We’re 38 days from Election Day & 45 days away from the Supreme Court taking up the case that will decide whether the Affordable Care Act survives,” Sen. Dick Durbin...

A ceremony at the Pullman National Monument marks another step in making a sprawling factory site on Chicago’s South Side a tourist attraction

Watch the groundbreaking in the player above beginning at 10:45 a.m. Monday. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Sen. Dick Durbin on Monday will celebrate the groundbreaking of the Pullman National Monument in Chicago’s historic Pullman District, now a National Park. Lightfoot and Durbin join Chicago community leaders and city officials at 10:45 a.m. on Labor Day, according to their...

Sen. Dick Durbin is blasting Republican Mark Curran for comments the candidate made about U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who passed away Friday at the age of 80. Curran, the former Lake County sheriff who is running against Durbin for a seat in the United States Senate, criticized Lewis’ support of abortion rights during his life, saying that the Congressman...

Illinois Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth are among a large group of Democratic lawmakers sponsoring a police reform bill in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. The senators joined Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) along with Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), chair of...

Mark Curran won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate Tuesday, the Associated Press projects, defeating four other candidates to challenge incumbent Sen. Dick Durbin in November.

Sen. Dick Durbin tells Illinois residents not to panic, but to use common-sense hygiene practices to protect yourself. Kye Martin has the story.

The Senate will begin President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Tuesday, and Illinois’ senators are prepared to serve as jurors in the case. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern has the story.