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Who will fill Dick Durbin’s US Senate seat in Illinois? Here are the candidates
12 May 2025 13:50 GMT
… U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth will become Illinois’ senior senator.
Here’s … member U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin enters a Senate Judiciary Committee nomination … )
Illinois U.S. Senate appointee Roland Burris, center, meets with Senate Majority Whip Dick …
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With US Sen. Dick Durbin retiring, Illinois’ tradition of upstate-downstate senators is in peril
27 Apr 2025 11:15 GMT
… senator and future President Barack Obama of Chicago, appointed Democratic Sen. Roland Burris of … Chicago economist Paul Douglas and Senate Republican leader Everett McKinley Dirksen … , 1996, with Senate candidate Rep. Dick Durbin, U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley …
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Appointed senators: The winners, seat-warmers, losers and weirdos
16 Jan 2025 03:58 GMT
Two appointed senators, Roger Wicker, R-Miss., left, and Roland Burris, D-Ill., walk …
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Chicago murals: 'The Three Senators' by Mike Stidham celebrates Illinois' Obama, Braun and Burris
13 Sep 2024 16:39 GMT
… Sens. Carol Moseley Braun, Roland Burris and senator-turned-U.S. President … This mural, “The Three Senators” by Chicago artist Mike Stidham … digital doodle.”
The Three Senators mural, by Chicago artist … Stidham created The Three Senators mural in Chatham
Stidham …
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Will Dianne Feinstein’s Senate Replacement Be a One-Hit Wonder?
03 Oct 2023 09:17 GMT
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Roland Burris served as an Illinois senator from 2009 … himself.
According to his Senate biography, Kaufman spent … Senate seat.
Crist ran in the Republican primary in 2010, but Sen … Senate shortly after losing in a 2018 election to Sen. …
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Senate loses giant in Dianne Feinstein: ‘A trailblazer …
29 Sep 2023 22:55 GMT
… of her illustrious career, which senators praised and reminisced about during … Roland Burris (D-Ill.) as former Sen. Barrack Obama’s replacement in the Senate … , California’s other senator “Ali and Frazier.”
Longtime senators remembered how Feinstein …
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Former US Senator and State Comptroller Roland Burris has street named for him in his hometown
13 Sep 2021 18:22 GMT
… on Saturday, with honoree Roland Burris, Mayor Bryan Kuder and … has been designated as Roland Burris Way.
Mayor Kuder began … to the United States Senate in 2009. The declaration … presents a proclamation to Roland Burris for his lifetime accomplishments …
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Centralia City Council declares part of Maple Street “Roland Burris Way”
24 Aug 2021 16:42 GMT
… from Broadway to Rexford as “Roland Burris Way”. Everyone is being invited … . Burris, who is former US Senator and State Comptroller, is expected …
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Former U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk speaks publicly for first time in more than five years
05 May 2023 03:52 GMT
… . Capitol himself.
Last year, Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., … saga involving that particular Senate was the subject of its … appointed former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to finish Obama' … ;A United States Senator using his old senatorial magic to help …
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Blagojevich roasts Dems: Calls Schiff the ‘Elvis’ of liars, says party preferred 'coma' patient to Harris
28 May 2025 18:35 GMT
… for Liars" headlined by Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
Asked … office by the Illinois State Senate on claims he tried to … "sell" then-Sen. Barack Obama’s seat, saw … to sell what became then-Sen. Roland Burris’, D-Ill., seat, and instead …
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