ILLINOIS (WAND) - U.S. Senator Dick Durbin has won a fifth term in office, the Associated Press reports. 

AP called the race for Durbin after 7 p.m. Tuesday. 

Durbin beat out Republican challenger Mark Curran, a former sheriff in Lake County. Other challengers include Chicago businessman Willie Wilson, who ran under his own party, David Black of the Green Party and Danny Malouf, a Libertarian.

Durbin first took office in 1996.