State’s attorney candidate Anita Alvarez says she’s not cut from the same cloth as other Cook County prosecutors: she’s honest.
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The congressman’s friend
Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. declines to endorse his lifelong friend Howard Brookins Jr. for Cook County state’s attorney.
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Rule of law
A top Cook County prosecutor seems to forget that defendants aren’t guilty until proven so.
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The Return of Larry Eyler
When he was sentenced to death for the murder of an Uptown boy prostitute, police and prosecutors thought they had brought an end to a long series of gruesome homosexual murders. But the killing hasn’t stopped, and now Eyler is returning to court with a s In a Rogers Park alley on August 21, 1984, […]
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Two Cops Who Broke the Code
Oak Park detectives Pat Kelly and Ron Surmain accused fellow officers of theft and corruption. Now they are outcasts, unable to work because they fear for their lives.