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Attorneys and legal activists are offering suggestions on how to correct the problem of wrongful prosecutions in Lake County. The ideas include additional training for prosecutors and working to get judges to allow expert testimony on false confessions....
A power outage in Wheeling, oversized ballots in Aurora and a computer that crashed overnight in Kane County a few problems have cropped up on an otherwise serene primary election day. Its too early to tell if voter turnout will be lower today than was...
Cook County Judge Bridget Hughes denies Jonathan Wood’s post-trial motions for a new trial based on ineffective counsel and to represent himself pro se. Wood was convicted in December of the 2008 murder of his mother Marilyn Wood in her Elk Grove...
A DuPage County grand jury Thursday indicted the Naperville man accused of fatally stabbing Spring Brook Elementary School teacher Shaun Wild at a nightclub last month. Daniel Olaska, 27, was indicted on seven counts of first-degree murder, two counts...
Lake County prosecutors said Thursday they will study an appellate court ruling ordering a new trial for a Grayslake man convicted of shooting a dog in his yard before deciding if a second trial will be set. The 2nd District Appellate Court in Elgin ruled...
Kane County Clerk Jack Cunningham will almost surely be off the 11th Congressional District ballot following a ruling by Illinois State Board of Elections officials that invalidated most of his nominating petitions. The matter now goes back to the appellate...
Armando Huerta Jr. was less than a month from graduation when he was gunned down outside his family’s Addison home on May 16, 2009. This week, the Chicago man accused of killing the Addison Trail High School senior in a jealous rage faces trial...
How do you plug a hole up to $2 billion to pay for extending Route 53 into Lake County? Members of a tollway committee are up against that challenge, with suggestions ranging from sales tax or toll hikes to earmarking some of the revenue from expected...
Evidence of the destructive emerald ash borer is increasing in Vernon Hills and other Lake County communities. “It’s widespread, more than we anticipated,” said Ken Loar, a crew leader with the Vernon Hills public works department. Listen...
