We went into shock, all of us, the theater industry, too. What happened 10 years ago was inconceivable, unimaginable, horrifying, numbing and--let's be honest--exciting.
A parole hearing did not go well for a Chicagoan that Puerto Rican nationalists call a patriot. The prisoner, Oscar López Rivera, has served more than 29 years on a conviction of seditious conspiracy.
A federal prison in downstate Illinois is scheduled to release an Oak Park and River Forest High School alumnus today. Carlos Alberto Torres once topped the FBI's Most Wanted list. After his 1980 arrest in Evanston, prosecutors called Torres a terrorist.
