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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

CHICAGO (AP) – Former U.S. Sen. Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois has died at his home on Chicago's North Side. He was 90. His son Adlai Stevenson IV, who confirmed the Illinois Democrat died on ...

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 ...