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CHICAGO, July 29 (UPI) -- In an unusual move, a federal appeals court removed the chief federal judge in Chicago from a drug trial, going beyond what prosecutors had been seeking.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Illinois state lawmakers say they have delayed their timetable for the impeachment process of embattled Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
CHICAGO, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Federal investigators have more secretly taped conversations of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich than previously disclosed, court documents indicate.
CHICAGO, March 15 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Chicago has ordered an investigation into whether two people lost their jobs because of their grand jury service. The chief judge of the U.S. District Court, James Holderman, found "probable cause" that the two were fired because they w
CHICAGO, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Journalists covering the fraud trial of fallen media baron Conrad Black in Chicago have been warned be nice or be gone. U.S. District Judge James Holderman, who presides over the trial beginning March 5, set his first ground rules dealing with the often r
MIAMI, March 28 (UPI) -- A former president of the University of South Carolina and a colleague were charged Friday with conspiring to illegally obtain visas and launder drug money for
