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Venkateswara Kuchipudi, right, walks with his lawyer Theodore Poulos outside the Dirksen U.S Courthouse on Aug. 12, 2016, after Kuchipudi was sentenced to two years in prison for his part in a fraud scheme at the now-shuttered Sacred Heart Hospital.

Doctor sentenced to 2 years in Sacred Heart bribery scheme

June 10, 2018 at 10:05 a.m.

In the years before Sacred Heart Hospital abruptly closed, a series of elderly nursing home patients were taken to the struggling West Side medical facility, where they were whisked directly...

Rob Blagojevich appears Aug. 9, 2016, outside the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago before the resentencing of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich. His brother, Rod Blagojevich, was to appear in the courtroom via a closed-circuit TV feed instead of being brought from federal prison in suburban Denver, where he has been serving a 14-year sentence.

Blagojevich faces 8 years more in prison after judge sticks to 14-year term

August 21, 2019 at 7:36 p.m.

Moments after learning his bid to reduce his 14-year sentence had failed, Rod Blagojevich stood alone in a stark prison room in Colorado on Tuesday while his family sobbed in...

Gov. Rod Blagojevich returns home after a morning run in Chicago on Jan. 9, 2009, the day the Illinois House voted to impeach him.

Patti Blagojevich pleads with judge to free her husband: ‘I am begging you’

May 22, 2019 at 10:18 p.m.

On the eve of Rod Blagojevich's resentencing, his wife, Patti, wrote a heartfelt letter imploring the federal judge to let her husband come home "and be the father that our...

Obama Foundation Chair Marty Nesbitt joins community leaders to officially announce the Jackson Park location of the Obama Presidential Center during a press conference outside the Museum of Science and Industry Aug. 3, 2016.

Obama library boosters: Jackson Park choice won’t leave Washington Park in dust

June 10, 2018 at 10:38 a.m.

With the sun glimmering off the Jackson Park lagoon, planners of an Obama presidential library in that historic park sought to reassure residents living near Washington Park, the runner-up site,...

A bicyclist in Jackson Park near the site of the Obama Presidential Center on April 14, 2021.

Parks group says Obama library site isn’t public trust land, won’t sue

June 10, 2018 at 9:54 a.m.

Friends of the Parks said Wednesday it will not file a lawsuit to stop the Obama presidential library in Jackson Park. The parks preservation group said it remains opposed to...

Longtime Wrigley Field vendor William Griffin delivers flowers to the gravesite of his longtime friend, Ho Pun Padgett, at Ridgewood Memorial cemetery in Des Plaines, on July 12, 2016. The gravestone was paid for by a Chicago executive who reached out to Griffin after reading about him in the Tribune.

Businessman, ballpark vendor form friendship over grave marker for friend

May 22, 2019 at 10:11 p.m.

He stood in the parched and browning grass at the back of the cemetery, gazing down at the red granite gravestone. For two years the grave in Section 15 of...

Incoming Archbishop Blase Cupich knocks on the front doors before the Rite of Reception ceremony at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago on Nov. 17, 2014.

Pope taps Chicago archbishop for key bishop advisory panel

June 10, 2018 at 12:17 p.m.

Pope Francis on Thursday named Archbishop Blase Cupich to the influential Congregation for Bishops, an appointment that signals he wants a key pastoral voice involved in the selection of U.S....

Chicago police patrol as activists against police brutality gather in downtown Chicago on July 11, 2016.

Hundreds protest police brutality, gnarling traffic on downtown streets

May 22, 2019 at 10:09 p.m.

For the fifth consecutive day, crowds of demonstrators gathered downtown Monday to protest police violence against African-Americans. A sit-in in Millennium Park organized by Chicago high school students was followed...

Members of the Chicago Police Department work the scene where two people were reportedly stabbed on the 6400 block of South Honore Street on July 8, 2016.

Politicians, activists call for end to violence as cops told to work in pairs

May 22, 2019 at 10:08 p.m.

Across northern Illinois, with flags at a mournful half-staff and police badges covered by black bands in honor of fallen comrades to the south, a pall of sorrow and frustration...

Architect Ma Yansong at the originally proposed future site of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.

In Lucas Museum aftermath, Friends of the Parks stands defiant

May 22, 2019 at 10:06 p.m.

As the dust settles on George Lucas' decision to abandon plans for a museum in Chicago, the group at the center of the controversy says the very public debate has...

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