Blagojevich Jury Wraps Second Day Of Deliberations
Jurors in the Rod Blagojevich corruption retrial have wrapped up their second day of deliberations, meeting without a word on their progress on Monday.
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Jurors in the Rod Blagojevich corruption retrial have wrapped up their second day of deliberations, meeting without a word on their progress on Monday.
Gov. Pat Quinn on Monday signed historic legislation overhauling education and paving the way for a longer school day. But funding issues remain.
Republican lawmakers have teamed up to expanded the law which block the congressional pensions from convicted felons.
Jurors in the Rod Blagojevich corruption retrial have wrapped up their second day of deliberations, meeting without a word on their progress on Monday.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) says he is concerned that many large companies have threatened to leave his home state due to higher taxes, but he says Illinois lawmakers had to take action to pay the state's vendors.
Jurors spent a few hours Friday beginning their deliberations in the federal corruption retrial of ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich before going home for the weekend.
Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) has begun a new effort to do away with the city's employee head tax, which affects business owners.
Chicago Public Schools chief executive officer Jean-Claude Brizard says that if he is offered a salary bonus for raising students' test scores, he won't accept it.
The federal jury in Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial officially went home Friday afternoon after beginning to deliberate the deposed governor's fate.
Have news reports about mobs of teenagers rampaging along the Gold Coast and Streeterville eclipsed stories about ongoing gang violence in poorer neighborhoods?
Rod Blagojevich's defense attorney delivered a passionate closing argument on Thursday, saying prosecutors had proven nothing criminal and that the government wanted the jury to be nothing more than a "rubber stamp" for their case against the former governor.
Federal prosecutors began their closing argument in Rod Blagojevich's corruption retrial on Wednesday, telling jurors that the former governor lied to them repeatedly during his seven days on the witness stand.
The City Council has approved Garry McCarthy as the new police superintendent, and he already has a heater case on his desk.
Several Catholic Charities groups are suing the state, saying they should not have to accept same-sex couples in civil unions as foster parents.
The Emanuel Administration is heralding the first stretch of what it hopes will be 100 miles of dedicated—and protected—bicycle lanes in the city of Chicago.
