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Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich speaks with a fellow traveler as he awaits his flight back to Chicago at Denver International Airport on Feb. 18, 2020, in Colorado after being released from prison earlier in the evening. "I can't wait to get home," Blagojevich said at the airport after President Donald Trump commuted the ex-Illinois governor's 14-year sentence.

In his first days home, Blagojevich spun a web of half-truths and — to some — hypocrisy

February 21, 2020 at 8:26 p.m.

As disgraced ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich stood in front of TV cameras this week and declared himself a political prisoner finally home from eight years of exile, his former running mate...

What’s next for Rod Blagojevich? Can he practice law? Run for office? Become a poet?

February 21, 2020 at 6:02 p.m.

Rod Blagojevich and his family have spent the past eight years fighting for his freedom. Now that President Donald Trump has granted their wish by commuting Blagojevich's sentence and sending...

Calling himself a ‘freed political prisoner,’ Rod Blagojevich thanks Trump and remains unbowed

February 20, 2020 at 6:45 a.m.

Calling himself a "Trumpocrat" and "freed political prisoner," disgraced ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich used his first full day of freedom Wednesday to thank President Donald Trump for commuting his prison sentence...

Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and wife Patti arrive at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse for Blagojevich's third day on the stand. He attempted to refute allegations leveled by former chief of staff John Harris that Blagojevich had pressured him to help land a job for his wife, Patti, either in the securities industry or with the state. <a href="http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/news/local/chibrknews-blagojevich-to-take-the-stand-for-the-3rd-day-20110531,0,5693906.story" target="new">Read more >></a>

How Patti Blagojevich helped earn her husband’s release

February 18, 2020 at 7:52 p.m.

For most of her time as Illinois first lady, Patti Blagojevich preferred a behind-the-scenes role, advising her husband on myriad topics while building a real estate career that leaned heavily...

Then-U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, center, talks in 2008 at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse with Assistant U.S. Attorney Reid Schar, a prosecutor in the trial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Former federal prosecutors and ex-FBI boss say Trump sent wrong message with Blagojevich decision

February 18, 2020 at 10:05 p.m.

Amid the clatter over the news Rod Blagojevich would be released from prison years early, the former feds who first put him behind bars were quick to remind the public:...

Cassandra Tanner Miller in her Joliet home on Feb. 6, 2020. Her 18-month-old son was fatally shot death by his father with a gun that he was no longer legally allowed to possess.

Can courts do more to force FOID card violators to give up their guns? Cook and DuPage counties considering how following Tribune report.

February 17, 2020 at 6:28 p.m.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is calling for changes in how the judicial system handles defendants with revoked gun licenses following a Tribune investigation into the ballooning backlog of people...

Colton Miller's Batman costume hangs in the laundry room of his mother's house in Joliet. He was shot to death by his father before he had a chance to wear the costume.

A man with a revoked gun license killed his 18-month-old son in Joliet. Here’s how he and thousands of others slipped through the system.

February 14, 2020 at 9:31 a.m.

By the time Christopher Miller showed up at his estranged wife's backdoor in September 2019 with a pistol in his waistband, state authorities already had declared him too dangerous to...

Michael LaPorta gets ready to head to speech therapy with the help of his mother, Patricia. LaPorta was seriously injured when he was shot in the head with the gun of his childhood friend, Chicago police Officer Patrick Kelly.

Should the city of Chicago have to pay $44 million for a shooting involving an off-duty police officer? Federal judges set to rule

December 12, 2019 at 4:45 p.m.

Federal appeals judges signaled they could be about to overturn a historic jury verdict against the city of Chicago for a shooting involving an off-duty officer's gun, even though the...

Terrence Haynes spent nearly 20 years in prison before winning his release because of a problematic prosecution. Thursday he was formally declared innocent.

An Illinois man spent two decades in prison for a murder verdict that was overturned. He ‘never gave up hope’ — and now a judge has declared him innocent.

November 22, 2019 at 9:47 a.m.

An Illinois judge took the rare step Thursday of declaring a Kankakee man innocent of murder after the state's attorney agreed the man had spent nearly two decades in prison...

Terrence Haynes outside the Kankakee County Courthouse on May 6, 2019 after a pre-trial status hearing. Haynes was recently released from prison after being convicted of murder in 2000 and is awaiting a new trial.

After child witness recants two decades later, an Illinois man sues both the prosecutors and public defender involved in his murder trial

October 31, 2019 at 5:28 p.m.

A Kankakee man has filed a wrongful conviction lawsuit against both the prosecutors and public defender involved in his murder trial after a child witness recanted decades-old testimony, and an...

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