A suburban Chicago lawyer has been accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from his former law firm and asking a priest to use church funds to cover some…
An embattled U.S. senator from Illinois who is fighting efforts to force him from office, following allegations that he misrepresented his dealings with now-impeached ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, expects that his…
It wouldn’t be difficult for government officials to tweak red-light camera operations so that they also check violators’ license plates against automobile insurance records, says an official of a company…
After a summer in which gun violence in Chicago claimed more American lives last year than the war in Iraq, the National Rifle Association has gained an unlikely ally in…
A Chicago lawyer charged with the murder of the ex-girlfriend and daughter of a basketball star had been charged in six domestic violence cases, but was never flagged for special…
On the day the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, in a salvo that began the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln’s gold pocket watch happened to be in a repair shop…
In 1987, Richard Wiley was sentenced to 30 years in prison for stabbing his 25-year-old wife to death two years earlier. He served 15 years, and was released in 2000,…
After layoffs were announced at McDermott Will & Emery early this month, those in charge of its Chicago headquarters office decided to reduce the scope of its coffee…
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