Barack Obama: I trusted Rezko
Trying to put his past with Antoin "Tony" Rezko behind him, presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday said he never thought the nowindicted Chicago businessman would try to take advantage...
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Obama: I trusted Rezko
Trying to put his past with Antoin "Tony" Rezko behind him, presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday said he never thought the nowindicted Chicago businessman would try to take advantage...
Governor’s pardon defended
Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration presented a confusing picture Wednesday of what his office knew about a woman who received a criminal pardon from the governor in 2007, even as her...
School’s $1 million grant to be probed
In the midst of approving a $1 million state grant to officials for a school burned out of the Pilgrim Baptist Church, Gov. Rod Blagojevich granted a pardon and ordered...
Governor again tells church it’s due $1 million
In what Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Monday called a "bureaucratic mistake," a $1 million state grant meant to help Pilgrim Baptist Church rebound after a 2006 fire instead went to...
Guilty plea in mortgage fraud
Flashy mortgage broker Edwin Evans once trolled the South Side in a Lexus sedan and promised cash-strapped homeowners that he could help them stave off foreclosure. Now he's likely to...
Judge reveals Blagojevich is ‘Public Official A’
Laying to rest the latest parlor game of Illinois politics, a federal judge on Monday made it crystal clear that "A" stands for Rod Blagojevich in the public corruption case...
This house was a steal
The new buyers of a rundown graystone on the South Side showed up Jan. 9 to look at the house they won at a foreclosure auction. They took the plywood...
Inside the world of war profiteers
Inside the stout federal courthouse of this Mississippi River town, the dirty secrets of Iraq war profiteering keep pouring out. Hundreds of pages of recently unsealed court records detail how...
Obama: I toured home with Rezko
Before he bought his South Side mansion in 2005, Sen. Barack Obama took his friend and fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko on a tour of the premises to make sure it...