Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced on Wednesday to 2.5 years in prison after pleading guilty to misspending campaign funds for personal use, The Chicago Sun-Times and others are ...

Jackson drew a 45-second bipartisan standing ovation in the House chamber as members showed their appreciation for the ...

According to the prison handbook, wake-up is at 6 a.m ... tax returns in connection to a scheme by her then-husband, Jesse Jackson Jr. She served 11 months. That same year, a federal jury ...

After months of deliberation in a federal fraud case, former Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. was sentenced earlier today (August 14) in a Washington court to serve 30 months in prison for ...

Jesse Jackson Jr. Nine Chicago mayors came together earlier ... Blagojevich for his corruption crimes, saying his 14-year prison sentence was “unfair and unnecessary.” Rev. Jesse Jackson ...

Jesse Jackson Jr., the namesake son of the legendary civil ... He was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and served about half of that term behind bars before being released to a halfway ...

Chicago organizers have long joined together across racial, ethnic, and geographic lines in the fight for a better city.

Jesse Jackson Jr. is ramping up an effort to get politicians ... to help conceal the scheme and was sentenced to a year in prison. She served about 11 months before being released in September ...