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Emanuel withholds most records detailing push for speed cameras

August 18, 2019 at 10:46 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has refused for months to release public records that could shed light on his controversial speed camera plan while he persuaded state lawmakers and Gov. Pat Quinn...

Emanuel withholds most records detailing push for speed cameras

December 23, 2018 at 9:09 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has refused for months to release public records that could shed light on his controversial speed camera plan while he persuaded state lawmakers and Gov. Pat Quinn...

Why Chicago’s speed-camera plan sparks so much interest

May 9, 2019 at 9:01 a.m.

Drivers may have been grousing about traffic tickets since the first Tin Lizzie was pulled over for doing 20 in a 15 zone, assuming there was such a thing way...

Quinn green-lights speed-camera plan for Chicago

December 23, 2018 at 9:04 p.m.

Gov. Pat Quinn gave Mayor Rahm Emanuel something he wanted Monday: the power to use cameras across nearly half of Chicago to nab speeding drivers and fine them as much...

Wisconsin slugfest is a fight over facts

December 23, 2018 at 8:42 p.m.

— Opponents of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday will submit a mountain of petition signatures demanding his recall, and in anticipation, the embattled Republican has flooded airwaves with ads...

Blagojevich hit with 14-year prison sentence

May 16, 2019 at 9:10 a.m.

A contrite former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison, capping one of the state's worst political scandals and humbling a controversial and defiant figure...

Blagojevich hit with 14-year prison sentence

August 25, 2019 at 12:28 a.m.

A contrite former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison, capping one of the state's worst political scandals and humbling a controversial and defiant figure...

Hard time looking likely for ex-Gov. Blagojevich

June 17, 2018 at 7:33 p.m.

Two things were clear Tuesday by the close of the first day of Rod Blagojevich's sentencing hearing: The former governor was likely going to be hit with a stiff sentence,...

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and his wife Patti Blagojevich give a statement before leaving the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago after he is found guilty on 17 of 20 counts in his corruption trial.

Day of reckoning at hand for Blagojevich

June 18, 2018 at 1:09 a.m.

Throughout a long and now disgraced public career, Rod Blagojevich became known for his silver but often forked tongue. It is a reputation sure to loom large over this week's...

Day of reckoning at hand for Blagojevich

August 23, 2021 at 2:24 a.m.

Throughout a long and now disgraced public career, Rod Blagojevich became known for his silver but often forked tongue. It is a reputation sure to loom large over this week's...

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