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Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash appears in court during a public hearing in Vienna, Austria, on Feb. 21, 2017. While his case is being heard overseas, prosecutors in the U.S. have attempted to extradite Firtash.

Ukranian oligarch with ties to Manafort and wanted in Chicago gets holiday reprieve

May 23, 2019 at 8:16 p.m.

Prosecutors’ hopes of getting indicted Ukrainian billionaire oligarch Dmitry Firtash in front of a federal judge in Chicago in 2018 have taken a hit. Wanted for his alleged role masterminding...

Outgoing 1871 CEO Howard Tullman speaks at the City Club of Chicago on Dec. 19, 2017.

Outgoing 1871 CEO Howard Tullman adopts wait-and-see approach to net neutrality

May 23, 2019 at 8:16 p.m.

Outgoing 1871 CEO Howard Tullman took a victory lap with a speech at the City Club of Chicago on Tuesday — but if Chicago’s techies were expecting their fast-talking champion...

Retired Judge Richard Posner is taking another swing at representing a man who claims the entire Maryland federal judiciary is involved in a conspiracy against him.

Former Judge Posner shrugs off Maryland court’s dis

May 23, 2019 at 8:16 p.m.

He might be the most frequently cited legal scholar in U.S. history, but there’s nothing recently retired federal appeals Judge Richard Posner can teach Maryland’s federal appeals court. At least...

Peter Francis Geraci loses 7-year, $90 million court battle with former employee

May 23, 2019 at 8:16 p.m.

Peter Francis Geraci may have used his ever-present TV ads to build a small empire in the bankruptcy courts, but 2017 hasn’t exactly been a banner year for his highly...

Veteran Springfield journalist and Capitol Fax Publisher Rich Miller says Gov. Bruce Rauner "has to run the most negative campaign anyone ... has ever seen."

Will Rauner’s re-election campaign be ‘Negative, negative, negative, negative’?

May 23, 2019 at 8:16 p.m.

Gov. Bruce Rauner touted his top 10 accomplishments of 2017 in a news release Monday. But not everyone was buying the spin. Veteran Springfield journalist and Capitol Fax Publisher Rich...

Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin traveled to New York to discuss Chicago's violence probelm with the United Nations assistant secretary-general for peacebuilding support, Oscar Fernandez-Taranco.

Bring in the U.N. to solve Chicago ‘genocide,’ Boykin says

May 23, 2019 at 8:16 p.m.

President Donald Trump’s implicit threat to put the National Guard on the streets of Chicago to tackle the city’s violence problem attracted widespread ridicule earlier this year. But if the...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has for years said he has no interest in running for the presidency.

Emanuel jokes he told his ‘second wife’ he was running for president

May 23, 2019 at 8:16 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has for years said he has no interest in running for the presidency, and unless we missed something, there hasn’t exactly been a groundswell of public demand...

Metra CEO Don Orseno, center, is shown at a ceremony for Healy Metra station on May 8, 2017, at 4014 W. Fullerton Ave. in Chicago.

Metra anoints its departing Sir Topham Hatt

May 23, 2019 at 8:16 p.m.

“Metra chief executive officer” is one of those job titles where the public usually only learns the holder’s name when everything goes to hell. So it’s to the credit of...

President Barack Obama, left, prepares to sign executive orders followed by Vice President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House on Jan. 30, 2009.

Joe Biden tells Chicago audience ‘those memes are basically true’

May 23, 2019 at 8:16 p.m.

Say what you want about President Donald Trump, but he’s certainly been good for the Democratic Party book tour business. Just a few weeks after Hillary Clinton sold out the...

Valerie Jarrett, former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, speaks at a City Club luncheon at Maggiano's in Chicago on April 3, 2017.

Valerie Jarrett joins University of Chicago Law School

May 23, 2019 at 8:16 p.m.

Add another sweet gig to the Obamas’ “first friend” Valerie Jarrett’s burgeoning portfolio of post-White House jobs. Starting in the new year, Jarrett will be a “distinguished senior fellow” at...

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