CHICAGO (WLS) -- Former Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson III has died at 90-years-old. A close friend of the family told Eyewitness News that he died peacefully at Chicago after a long illness ...

In a family with a bad case of hereditary politics, as his father once put it, Mr. Stevenson III hardly rivaled the original Adlai E. Stevenson, Grover Cleveland’s 1890s vice president, or Adlai ...

Mr. Stevenson ran for governor of Illinois twice, losing his 1982 run by just 5,074 votes to Republican Gov. Jim Thompson. It is the closest Illinois election for governor in modern state history.

Former Sen. Adlai Stevenson III, who spent 11 years representing Illinois, died on Monday in his Chicago home Monday at age 90, a report said.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Stevenson (Adlai) Center on Democracy has hosted 2 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2008 Forum. The year with the highest average number of views ...

Former U.S. Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson III, the fourth generation of an iconic Illinois Democratic political family to hold public office and who lost the closest governor’s race in state history ...

Adlai Stevenson III, a former senator from Illinois who was descended from a prominent political family, died Sept. 6 at his home in Chicago. He was 90. His son Adlai Stevenson IV told the Chicago ...

This year’s election is shaping up to be the first presidential rematch since President Dwight D. Eisenhower faced Adlai Stevenson in 1956. And that’s not the only thing the two races have in ...

There are few modern historical figures I admire more than Adlai E. Stevenson, the thoughtful and self-aware mid-century politician best known today for being a perennial presidential also-ran ...

Just so, Adlai Stevenson’s inability to prevail in the tawdry arena of electioneering became a flickering testament to the conviction that politics and decency don’t mix—which, true or not ...