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(Springfield–jc) – The Illinois Department of Transportation announced that lanes that have been closed for construction will reopen, where possible, for the Christmas and New Year&.
(The Center Square) – The longtime top aide to the former Illinois House Speaker argues a pending U.S. Supreme Court case involving the federal bribery statute could apply to his case even though he was convicted of perjury. Prosecutor.
CHICAGO — Five years ago this month, decades of political dominance by a pair of old school Chicago Democratic politicians began to unravel when FBI agents descended on City Hall on an otherwise quiet Thursday morning. Even in a town accustomed to high-profile public corruption probes, the sight of brown butcher paper taped over the windows and glass doors of a storied seat of power such as .