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Finnigan Names Names
In light of reports that everyone and their brother is talking to the feds in a desperate attempt to cut deals to avoid prison, it seems the big name…
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Crooked Poilitics? In Chicago?
Who'd have thunk it? Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown’s husband has been hit with a federal subpoena asking him to appear before a …
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Jail Time?
Criminals actually serving time? U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. may serve time in prison under a plea deal that is being negotiated, CBS 2 is reporting.…
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Wire Catches Little Luis?
Well known property tax cheat and terrorist supporter Luis Gutierrez was hospitalized the other day, suffering from high blood pressure, heart palpit…
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Connected Dollars
A-fucking-mazing : T he judge who’s to decide whether a special prosecutor investigates the Cook County state’s attorney’s office’s handling of a …
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Family Corruption
Gee, who would have guessed that a family member of Aldercreature Burke was under investigation? College tuition waivers awarded by a member of one …
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Nice Elevators Rahm
The hits just keep on coming for Rahm : Visitors in a famed Chicago skyscraper dropped 84 floors, but survived when an elevator malfunctioned in the…
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Predatory Funeral Homes
If Illinois is looking to save money, here's a place to start cutting : Predatory funeral homes have been accused of cashing in on Chicago’s rele…
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Stroger Era Draws to a Close
With yet another example of profligate spending and taxpayer ripoffs : Cook County Board President Todd Stroger's administration treated families…
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See Ya Rod
Symbolic of so much that is wrong in Illinois : Flanked by his wife Patti and his youngest daughter, Rod Blagojevich bid a public goodbye outside hi…
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A Special Arrogance
The last time we heard a yarn this unbelievable , we were on a whaling ship out of Nantucket: Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said she b…
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Chicago Comptroller Indicted in Ohio
We have no particular training in journalism, mostly because we didn't feel like taking that route as a career. But we do have a career of more t…
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Mysterious Suicide
Anyone keeping an eye on Marco Morales? Because the way cooperating Combine politicos seem to die off before testifying, sentencing, or reporting f…
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Funny How This Works Out
Always some connection to Shortshanks . Always: Two decades ago, the city's Streets and Sanitation Department began leasing a block-long garage…
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Ex-CPD in Trouble
The media just can't wait to toss in that Chicago Police Department connection. But seeing as this is a suburban police chief, we suppose it'…
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Mystery Solved - Sort Of
Hillbuzz is having a field day with this one . The registered owner info popped up there, here and a couple of other blogs. TheExpiredMeter opines t…
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New Governor - New Tax Hike
Lt. Governor Patrick Quinn was sworn a little while ago. He has promised to raise state income taxes shortly. He's already asking for "sacr…
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Does This Count?
After all, he was an aldercreature at one time : Rather than face a fast-approaching tax evasion trial in federal court, former Chicago Ald. Edward R…
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Court - We Can't Produce the Surveys...
...because we destroyed them all! Detailed questionnaires filled out by jurors in the trial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich were destroyed after the j…
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Suspicious Timing
Gee, how typically Illinois in nature : As U.S. stock markets plummeted last September, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, sold more than …
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