As the U.S. attorney in Chicago, Fitzgerald has overseen thousands of criminal prosecutions and high-profile cases against Illinois governors Rod Blagojevich and George Ryan, former Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and media ...

EAST ST. LOUIS - A convicted sex offender from Wood River has received a maximum term of 10 years in prison after he fled to Colorado last year with a 15-year-old Jerseyville girl. John David Allen, 22, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Illinois for failure...

CHICAGO — In a blow to Illinois' sweeping eavesdropping law ... It sets a maximum punishment of 15 years in prison if a law enforcement officer is recorded. In a separate decision late last month, the city of Chicago's chief legal officer said police ...

Mike Waters, a Peoria attorney whose late uncle Jim Waters was among the Hallahans ... in a victims' lawsuit after the Hallahans filed for bankruptcy. It later became shockingly clear what they were doing and what it had cost their victims.

With nearly 300 people across the nation exonerated after being sentenced to death, the risk of executing an innocent person is a reality in the 33 states, including Pennsylvania, where capital punishment remains legal. That risk alone should be enough to persuade responsible elected officials to scrap the death penalty — as Connecticut did in April, following the lead of Illinois, New Mexico ...