The Blagojevich Saga: How Did We Get Here?
When all else failed, he and his wife Patti Blagojevich began what some call a direct, public plea to President Trump, hoping he'd sympathize and set Blagojevich free.
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When all else failed, he and his wife Patti Blagojevich began what some call a direct, public plea to President Trump, hoping he'd sympathize and set Blagojevich free.
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and President Donald Trump have a history going back many years – to a time well before Blagojevich went to prison and before Trump was best known as a politician.
CBS 2 Legal Analyst Irv Miller said, while Trump's clemency order reduced Blagojevich's 14-year prison sentence, it did not clear his criminal record, so he'll still be a convicted felon.
"It's important those found guilty serve their prison sentences."
City Council Public Safety Committee Chairman Chris Taliaferro (29th) said the Chicago Police Department can learn some lessons from Los Angeles in addressing officer suicides.
Almost eight years after he left his home in Ravenswood Manor to begin serving a prison term in Colorado, former Gov. Rod Blagojevich soon will be winging his way back to Chicago, and his wife and daughters couldn't be more elated.
Police in Orland Park were searching for two suspects in a carjacking in a grocery store parking lot.
Police on Tuesday were warning the public of a man who sexually abused a child in a restaurant bathroom in River North.
Chicago taxpayers will soon be on the hook for nearly $11 million more to settle lawsuits accusing police officers of misconduct, including a $10 million payout to a man left a paraplegic when police officers shot him during a foot chase in 2012.
President Trump commuted Rod Blagojevich's 14-year prison sentence for corruption and will soon be a free man.
A teacher at Sunset Ridge School in Northfield filed a lawsuit Tuesday against David Garcia-Espinal – the man accused of hiding cameras in bathrooms at the school – and the two contractors that employed him.
When Donald Trump commuted Rod Blagojevich's federal sentence on multiple corruption charges, Illinois' 40th governor was just one in a long list of crooked state chief executives.
President Trump on Tuesday commuted the corruption sentence for former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.
Officials said 522 projects were shot in Chicago last year and 15,000 "non-extra" jobs were created.
The Brookfiled Zoo is hosting a sensory friendly morning on Saturday.
