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What fascinates contemporary theater about torture is precisely what Medieval, Elizabethan and Jacobean theater didn't question: the moral ambiguity of it.

In our conversation yesterday about My Kind of Town, Steve Edwards raised the question why the staged version of Chicago’s police torture scandal affected audiences so much more, and more viscerally, than written accounts of the scandal.  There’s the physical presence of theater, of c

Former Mayor Richard M. Daley is one step closer to being deposed in connection with alleged torture by Chicago police. On Wednesday a Federal judge ruled for the second time that Daley can be sued over alleged police torture.The former mayor was the Cook County state's attorney back in the 1980s.

A judge has ruled former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley can be named in a lawsuit alleging police torture under former Commander Jon Burge.Former Mayor Daley was the Cook County State's Attorney in 1986 when Michael Tillman was arrested for killing Betty Howard.

Chicago attorneys and activists are planning a monument to memorialize the victims of police torture.The group is asking artists to submit proposals for the monument.

Former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge is scheduled to be in court Thursday for sentencing, and a ruling Wednesday gives him reason to be hopeful.  He was convicted of obstruction of justice and perjury and pre-sentencing report by a probation officer recommends sentencing considerations for