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Chicago Sun-Times: State panel: Blagojevich should be disbarred for ‘egregious misconduct’
The state’s disciplinary agency for lawyers took just a week to recommend disbarment for Rod Blagojevich, all but assuring the disgraced ex-governor won’t get to put his law degree to practice now that he’s free from prison.
The Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission typically takes a month or more to weigh potential punishment for problem lawyers.
Associated Press: Illinois city to pay $11M in wrongful conviction settlements
Three men who say they were framed by police in the 2002 murder of a young boy will each receive $3.7 million in a settlement with a northern Illinois city.
Anthony S. Ross, 39, Tyjuan T. Anderson, 38, and Lumont D. Johnson, 46, were imprisoned for more than a decade after their sentencing to 50 years for killing 8-year-old DeMarcus Hanson in Rockford.
The Center Square: Illinois House Republicans call for fair hearings on party's property tax relief measure
Illinois House Republicans called on the Democratic majority Tuesday to hold fair hearings on measures to reduce property taxes in Illinois, which has the second-highest property taxes in the nation.
State Rep. Deanne Mozzachi, R-Elmhurst, said since the Property Tax Relief Task Force was created in the fall and wrapped up their work in late December without producing a final report, property taxes across the state continue to increase.
Chicago Sun-Times: Inside a gambling ring: a convicted bookie and his squad of government workers
Twenty-four years ago, Vincent DelGiudice pleaded guilty to running an illegal gambling operation — a criminal record he later tried but failed to erase.
Now, in a much higher-profile case, DelGiudice again is charged with running an illegal gambling operation, this time using the Internet to take sports bets from more than 1,000 gamblers.
State Journal-Register: Langfelder issues rare veto of pension ordinance
Springfield Mayor Jim Langfelder issued a rare veto Tuesday afternoon as he urged city council members not to repeal an ordinance passed last year diverting excess funds towards the city’s growing police and fire pension obligations.
The initial ordinance was passed last year. It would have required additional payments towards pensions when the city’s corporate fund balance was above 16 percent.
Chicago Tribune: Who’s profiting off the millions that Illinois’ marijuana business is bringing in? State officials are keeping that secret.
Marijuana entrepreneurs are starting to rake in millions of dollars a month in Illinois as customers line up to buy newly legal weed, but who’s profiting from those sales remains secret.
Regulators say state law bars the release of almost all the information businesses have to submit to get lucrative licenses to grow or sell cannabis.
Chicago Sun-Times: Federal jury awards $5.2 million to man who said he was beaten, forced to confess to gang rape
A federal jury awarded $5.2 million Tuesday to a man who claims he spent 31 years in prison after two Chicago police officers beat him into falsely confessing his role in a brutal September 1982 gang rape and assault of a woman on the South Side.
The verdict favoring Stanley Wrice ended a contentious civil trial that lasted roughly a week and a half at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse, taking jurors through a legal saga that has spanned nearly four decades.
Herald-News: Joliet ready to spend $4.6 million on vehicle replacement
Joliet is ready to embark on a vehicle replacement program starting with seven snow plow trucks from the 1990s.
Those trucks are among 46 vehicles and pieces of equipment the city plans to replace this year at a cost of $4.6 million.
Daily Herald: District 214 associate superintendent abruptly resigns
One of the top administrators for Northwest Suburban High School District 214 has abruptly resigned after nearly two decades in the district.
Kurt Laakso, associate superintendent for human resources since 2012, handed in his resignation last Thursday. Laakso’s resignation is listed under the personnel transaction report school board members are set to vote on Thursday as part of their meeting’s consent agenda.
Belleville News-Democrat: Alorton mayor charged with DUI after being pulled over in O’Fallon
Alorton Mayor JoAnn Reed was arrested early Sunday and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, O’Fallon police said.
Officers approached a car stopped illegally near the intersection of Green Mount Road and Cambridge Boulevard at about 2:35 a.m.