Attorneys are preparing to put on a defense later this week for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. One of the big questions surrounding their defense is whether they'll put the former governor on the stand.
Updated on Sunday, May 22 at 5:42 p.m. There's still no word on whether Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel or U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., will be called to testify in Rod Blagojevich's defense.
A jury has been selected to hear the federal trial of Tahawwur Rana, a Chicago businessman who has been charged with plotting a terrorist attack in Denmark and aiding the 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India.
When former presidential candidate and head of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was arrested in New York on charges of rape, French intellectuals and politicians were quick to rush to his defense.
The FBI and Chicago area police are turning their attention back to the unsolved 1982 Tylenol killings. The crimes left seven people in and around Chicago dead after the victims unknowingly took Tylenol poisoned with potassium cyanide.
A woman who's suing a Chicago-based alcoholic beverage company is sending a warning to others. Karla Rupp's 15-year-old son became intoxicated after drinking two cans of Four Loko. He then walked out into a road where he was fatally struck by a car. The boy and his friends bought the
Prosecutors have rested their case in the retrial of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. They ended three weeks of testimony this afternoon by going back to the very beginning of Blagojevich's time as governor. They played a video for jurors from 2003 in which Blagojevich takes the
