After being charged by Illinois' special prosecutors, a lawyer and legal researcher unearthed misconduct
In LaSalle County’s stately courthouse in central Illinois, a powerful law enforcement official fought a bitter legal feud with an unflappable young lawyer, charging her with felony perjury for statements she made in a court affidavit.Two years later and 250 miles south in St. Clair County, a similar legal grudge match washed through the glass-and-concrete courthouse when a news researcher was charged with harassing a public official for alleged statements he made outside a local diner.In both…
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Ten Cook County Jail staffers suffered smoke inhalation and were taken to hospitals after a detainee apparently lit a small mattress on fire at the jail Sunday afternoon. About 3 p.m., correctional deputies responded to a small mattress fire that appeared to have been set by an individual in custody inside his cell on Tier 5A in the residential treatment unit, according to a statement from the Cook County sheriff's office. Deputies quickly extinguished the fire and evacuated the individual in…
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