Guest columnist Eric Zorn: The "Why?" question has hung over the gut-wrenching story of Marilyn Lemak s actions since March 4, 1999, when she methodically drugged and suffocated her children in their picturesque Victorian home in Naperville. Now petitioning for executive clemency while serving a life sentence, she told me from prison that she still struggles to answer it herself.
Eric Zorn: The vast understatement of Cook County State s Attorney Kim Foxx s admission that she "didn t handle (the Smollett case) well" in an October 2019 interview with Axios came clear in the 59-page report from the Office of the Special Prosecutor released to the public last week.
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In this excerpt from his daily newsletter "The Picayune Sentinel," Eric Zorn takes on topics including the Jussie Smollett case, the race for Illinois governor, a nearly $3 million civil settlement arising from a mistaken police raid in Chicago and more.