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Aldermen recommend settlement in claim of 1950s police torture
Tribune reporterChicago aldermen have recommended that the city pay out $950,000 to an 80-year-old man who said he confessed to a 1951 rape after police tortured him. Oscar Walden Jr., an African American, spent 50 years professing his innocence in the brutal rape and...Tags: Edward M. Burke
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Digging a pension hole
Illinois' pension system was in precarious enough shape in 1994 that Democrats and Republicans came together to solve a crisis threatening the state's financial future.
The agreement they forged was supposed to take politics out of pension funding by...Tags: Regional Authority, Career and Workplace, Budgets and Budgeting, Labor Legislation, Executive Branch
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Ex-lawmaker nearly doubles his pension with one month of work
All it took for former state Rep. Robert Molaro to nearly double his public pension was spending one month as an aide to Ald. Ed Burke, the powerful chairman of the Chicago City Council's Finance Committee. Among Molaro's duties: Write a 19-page white...Tags: Rod Blagojevich, Regional Authority, Justice System, Edward M. Burke, Economy, Business and Finance
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Injured girl in Elkhart County car crash now at Riley for treatment
A 9-year-old LaGrange County girl has been taken to Riley Hospital for Children-IU Health in Indianapolis after she and four others were injured in a two-car crash west of Middlebury Friday afternoon. Alia Villalobos of LaGrange is listed in critical...
Tags: Middlebury, Hospitals and Clinics, Health
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Man freed from death row now charged with retail theft
Tribune reporterA former death row inmate whose release from prison in 1999 provided a crucial spark in the push to abolish Illinois’ death penalty was back behind bars today, accused of stealing four deodorants from a store on Chicago’s South Side, Cook...Tags: Justice System, Prosecution, Punishment, Crimes, Cook County
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UPDATE: Three children, one adult hurt in crash released from hospital
The two-car crash just after 5 p.m. Friday at the S.R. 15/U.S. 20 intersection injured four children and one adult in the same vehicle. By Saturday afternoon, the adult and three children had been released from the hospital. Driver, Laura Ryan, 28, of ...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Hospitals and Clinics, Nursing, Health
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GUILTY
Tribune staff reportersA federal jury Monday convicted Rod Blagojevich of sweeping corruption, putting an end to a tragicomic legal and political drama that brought down Illinois' showy and would-be populist former governor. In its 10th day of deliberations, the 11-woman, one-...Tags: Regional Authority, Police Arrests, Prosecution, Blackmail and Extortion, Chicago Mayor
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Settlement between Chicago, pardoned man is reached in 1951 rape case
A settlement has been reached between the city of Chicago and an 80-year-old man who said police beat him and forced him to confess to a 1951 rape. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed under a judge’s order. Oscar Walden Jr. filed his...
Tags: Justice System, Lawyers, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice
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Fitzgerald: Public interest 'vindicated'
Tribune staff reporterIt couldn't have started more dramatically. A 6 a.m. arrest of a sitting governor at his home, followed by uncharacteristically strong remarks by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who famously described Rod Blagojevich as carrying out a "political...Tags: Rod Blagojevich, Regional Authority, Justice System, Prosecution, Osama bin Laden
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LaGrange youngster's condition from car crash improves at Riley
A 9-year-old LaGrange County girl’s condition is now listed as “good” at Riley Hospital for Children-IU Health, where she's being treated for injuries from a June 8 car crash near Middlebury. Alia Villalobos was in critical condition...
Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Injuries and Wounds, Hospitals and Clinics, Transportation Accidents, Health
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Supreme Court decision may give new trial to George Ryan
Chicago TribuneThe U.S. Supreme Courthas opened the door slightly for former Gov. George Ryan, giving his lawyers another chance to appeal his verdict on corruption charges. The justices told the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago to take another look at Ryan's...Tags: Government, Regional Authority, Justice System, James Robert Thompson, Lawyers
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