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One marker in hand and one in his mouth, Lou Chukman glances up and down from a sketchpad to a reputed Chicago mobster across the courtroom — drawing feverishly to capture the drama of the judge's verdict before the moment passes.
Rod Blagojevich has one last hope to reduce his harsh 14-year sentence: an appeal.
Rod Blagojevich starts his Thursday facing a bleak countdown — 71 days before the twice-elected Illinois governor must say goodbye to his family and begin serving a 14-year sentence for corruption.
An Illinois powerbroker on trial for attempted extortion complained that then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich's confidants were too overt about seeking benefits from state decisions and should follow the example he set during his decades close to the reins of power, a government witness told jurors Tuesday.
A dogfight in federal court over who makes America's tastiest wieners has ended with a fizzle.
The handsome, square-jawed young man held in isolation in a Chicago jail doesn't deny he was a top lieutenant in his father's Mexican drug cartel but instead has offered a novel defense for his drug-trafficking.
Wrestling with the challenges of documents in the digital age, U.S. officials are destroying millions of paper federal court records to save storage costs — and raising the ire of some historians, private detectives and others who heavily rely on the files.
Sam Volpendesto began his adult life celebrated as a war hero. Now 87, he is almost certain to die behind bars, derided as a mobster.
The nation's largest hot dog makers argued about the meaning of "100 percent pure beef" and the merits of ketchup Monday in a lawsuit over advertising claims stemming from their years of dog-eat-dog competition.
Terence Evans, a federal appeals judge celebrated for injecting humor into his opinions and for eschewing legalese, died after a serious respiratory illness, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago said Thursday. He was 71.
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his wife are trying to sell their Chicago home that once served as Illinois' de facto governor's mansion, his attorneys revealed Friday, as the couple scrambles to raise money before he goes to prison for corruption.
Over the years, evidence decays or passes through so many hands it's rendered useless. Murder weapons disappear, and witnesses' memories dim or are carried to the grave.
An eight-digit number affixed to his prison clothes. A job scrubbing toilets or mopping floors at 12 cents an hour. His incessant jogging confined to a prison yard. Most painful of all, restricted visits from his wife and two daughters.
Conrad Black, once a media mogul whose newspaper empire spanned several continents, is headed back to prison after a federal judge ruled Friday that he had not served enough time for defrauding investors.
In a secretly recorded phone call, the FBI captured Rahm Emanuel asking then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to consider appointing his choice as his successor in Congress when he left to become President Barack Obama's chief of staff, according to a transcript Blagojevich's attorneys filed at his corruption retrial Tuesday.
Rod Blagojevich had a golden opportunity to explain his most infamous comment about President Barack Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat to jurors at his political corruption retrial, but his delivery could have used some polish.
The judge at the corruption retrial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he expects the prosecution to rest Thursday, meaning the government's condensed case at the second trial will have been far shorter than at the first.
A federal judge in Chicago says there's no evidence President Barack Obama knew in 2008 that then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich might have attempted to exchange an appointment to Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat for a top administration job.
Defense attorneys for Rod Blagojevich hope to unnerve the prosecution's first witness when they cross-examine him Monday in the corruption retrial of the ousted Illinois governor.
Nerves frayed at the retrial of impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Thursday, as attorneys briefly butted heads over whether race and class were behind the elimination of some jurors as the two sides prepared to present their initial arguments to a seated jury on Monday.
Rod Blagojevich said Saturday he never considered a plea deal with federal prosecutors even though the impeached Illinois governor could face the possibility of spending decades behind bars if a jury finds him guilty during his upcoming second trial on corruption charges.
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is again lashing out at federal prosecutors ahead of his retrial on corruption charges.
A lawyer for an alleged national leader of the Latin Kings street gang says he'll appeal his client's conviction on racketeering and other charges.
Rod Blagojevich asked a judge Monday to order prosecutors to hand over written summaries of any FBI interviews with President Barack Obama about the ousted Illinois governor's corruption case.
Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich asked a judge Wednesday to cancel his upcoming retrial on political corruption charges and promptly sentence him on the sole conviction from the first trial, saying money woes prevent him from mounting an ample defense.
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