Chester Weger served 59 years behind bars for one of the most heinous crimes in this state’s history. Now out of prison, he is on a mission to prove his innocence, with help from a high-profile lawyer. Inside the effort to exonerate the “Starved Rock Killer.”
From Freeport to Jonesboro: how seven Illinois towns honor the debates that took place on their soil.
With a new miniseries on Hulu, Blago can’t seem to quit the spotlight — and the public seems to keep eating it up.
Making the case to take the shoreline away from Indiana, where steel mills continue to pollute the lake.
Fifty-five years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. rented an apartment on the West Side. He would leave not quite a year later, having learned a frustrating lesson: He could expose the city’s gaping racial wounds, but he could not heal them.
Illinois isn’t the only state with the problem, but it can breed bad government.
$130K Ald. Raymond Lopez is nicknamed Showpez for his grandstanding style. Most Chicagoans probably appreciated the show Lopez made of turning down the City Council’s latest pay increase, which raises the top aldermanic salary to $130,000. “How can anyone who continued making 6 figures during the most tumultuous time in recent history justify a 5.5% … Read more
We may consider Obama a product of Chicago, but he’s as much of the city as he is of Hawaii, New York, or Harvard.
A new book from the Chicago lawyer re-imagines American government in a way that is just, fair, and Constitutional.
Despite his hard work to turn the suburbs blue, their switch to the Democratic Party may have lost Speaker Madigan his seat.
