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'Starved Rock killer' died last year, now his family is seeking a rare posthumous pardon from Pritzker (opens the original)
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The decades-long fight to clear Chester Weger’s name as the notorious “Starved Rock killer” isn’t ending with his death. Weger’s family will get a chance next month to argue that the man who spent nearly six decades behind bars was wrongly convicted in one of Illinois’ most infamous murder cases. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board has scheduled a rare Oct. 6 hearing in Chicago on the family’s request for a posthumous pardon from Gov. JB Pritzker. The board rarely has considered posthumous clemen
A reporter followed Chicago first responders to New York after 9/11. He saw devastation — and heroism (opens the original)
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Mine begins three days earlier, in an apple orchard outside Saratoga Springs, N.Y. One of my best friends from college was getting married. He lived in New York City and some of his buddies at the wedding worked at the World Trade Center. It was a glorious weekend of bluegrass music and Calvados apple brandy. We flew home Sept. 10, 2001. On the morning of Sept. 11, I was driving down the Eisenhower Expressway, listening to the radio as I headed downtown to work. Network news reporters broke into
A reporter followed Chicago first responders to New York after 9/11. He saw devastation — and heroism (opens the original)
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Mine begins three days earlier, in an apple orchard outside Saratoga Springs, N.Y. One of my best friends from college was getting married. He lived in New York City and some of his buddies at the wedding worked at the World Trade Center. It was a glorious weekend of bluegrass music and Calvados apple brandy. We flew home Sept. 10, 2001. On the morning of Sept. 11, I was driving down the Eisenhower Expressway, listening to the radio as I headed downtown to work. Network news reporters broke into
Mom of Faceworld gang member found guilty of retaliating against a witness in son's murder case (opens the original)
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Donnita Bryant wasn’t accused of pulling a trigger, taking part in a kidnapping or committing any of the other brutal crimes federal prosecutors have tied to the South Side street gang known as Faceworld. But prosecutors say the mother of a convicted Faceworld killer joined her son’s campaign of intimidation — and helped post a videotaped law enforcement interview on social media to brand a government witness a “rat.” On Wednesday, a jury found Bryant and a Faceworld associate guilty of conspiri
Chicago police failed to identify cop whose guns were found during FBI raid of felon’s home (opens the original)
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Did a Chicago cop hand over two guns to a now-convicted extortionist and then lie to the police department about what happened to them? That explosive question arose in federal court filings in the case of Jawad Fakroune, a politically connected Chicago businessman who was convicted in June and is now serving a six-year prison sentence for threatening a restaurant owner over a $1.5 million debt. But the officer’s identity still remains a mystery. The Chicago Police Department’s Bureau of Interna
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