Sen. Kirk to Support Pritzker: She Will 'Take on Special Inter...

Sen. Mark Kirk, an Illinois Republican, announced Tuesday that he will vote in favor of Illinois' Penny Pritzker to lead the Commerce Department. Kirk, who joins Sen. Dick Durbin, D-lll., in backing Pritzker, said in a news release the two senators ...

U.S. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., waylaid by a serious stroke, Friday made his first official public appearance, taking reporters' queries at an Illinois charter school. Kirk, 53, who returned to work in the Senate in January, a year after suffering a stroke, ...

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. — U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk says rehab worked after he suffered a stroke last year. The Illinois Republican spoke Friday at a charter school in the northern Chicago suburbs along with fellow Sen. Dick Durbin. Kirk was asked about his ...

Eduardo Jaramillo was screaming for help in a West Pullman apartment on Chicago's South Side when shots rang out Thursday night, silencing the 23-year-old's cries forever. outside the second-floor apartment above the Faith & Love Fellowship Church ...

GOP Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois on Tuesday became the second sitting Republican senator to endorse gay marriage — a move that also could shift the political debate over legalizing gay marriage in Kirk's home state. Kirk, who has opposed a constitutional ...

Indicted ex-San Bernardino County official Mark Kirk back in politics [San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.] By Joe Nelson, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.McClatchy-Tribune Information Services May 19--Two years after being indicted in a major San ...

U.S. Senators Mark Kirk (R-IL), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) today are announcing plans to implement commonsense reforms to the U.S. sugar program by amending the Senate Farm Bill with a bipartisan effort that will save consumers ...

In a strong sign of bipartisan support for intensified pressure on the Iranian regime, United States Senators Mark Kirk (R-IL), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Susan Collins (R-ME), Bill Nelson (D-FL), and John Cornyn (R-TX) today introduced the Iran Sanctions ...

WASHINGTON U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) introduced a bill to impose a total export embargo on the government of Iran as the rogue nation continues to defy the United Nations Security Council by pursuing a nuclear weapons ...