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Rosenthal: U.S. lawsuit against S&P carries risk
Lady Justice is famously blind, a scale in one hand, a double-edged sword in the other. Nothing in the personification connotes efficiency. Nothing suggests she takes or gives satisfaction in her work. So here we are with muted expectations, six to...
Tags: Litigation, Arthur Andersen, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Financial Markets, National Government
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Lake Co. man arrested in child porn crackdown
A Lake County man accused of downloading child pornography has been arrested as part of a statewide crackdown called “Operation Glass House” launched two years ago, Attorney Gen. Lisa Madigan announced today. David Wayne McMurray, 52, was...
Tags: Lawyers, Winthrop Harbor, Pornography, Crime, Law and Justice, Police Arrests
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Pilsen plant agrees to curb lead emissions
Nearly a decade after neighbors first drew attention to lead pollution from a Pilsen smelting plant, the owners agreed Thursday to spend $3 million on new equipment to curb emissions of the brain-damaging metal. In a legal settlement announced Thursday...
Tags: Pilsen, Lawyers, Environmental Politics, Environmental Pollution, Crime, Law and Justice
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Pilsen polluter H. Kramer agrees to cut lead emissions
Tribune reporterOwners of a smelting facility linked to dangerous levels of lead in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood will spend $3 million on new equipment to curb emissions of the toxic metal. In a legal settlement announced today by federal and state officials, H....Tags: Pilsen, Lawyers, Environmental Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Environmental Pollution
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Rising star search
Change of SubjectAfter Lisa Madigan, which women in Illinois politics -- any party -- look most likely to move up to the next level? And which African-American pol -- again, any party -- is destined for bigger things? This question came up...... -
Business accused of operating 'massive pyramid scheme'
Attorney General Jack Conway and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced today they have taken legal action against Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing, an alleged global pyramid scheme operating since 2001 from its corporate headquarters in Lexington. The...
Tags: Consumers, Crime, Law and Justice, Finance, Judges, Satellite Technology
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Chicago Magazine's '100 Most Powerful Chicagoans' ranking released
Change of SubjectSome highlights from the list. 1 Rahm Emanuel 2 Michael Madigan 8 Toni Preckwinkle 10 David Axelrod 13 Dick Durbin 15 Sam Zell 20 Lisa Madigan 22 Ed Burke 24 Karen Lewis 30 Garry McCarthy 37 Cardinal Francis George 45...... -
Hadiya Pendleton funeral: Joyous memories, bitter facts about gun violence
The funeral for Hadiya Pendleton on Saturday was a celebration of her life, just as her parents had wanted. But along with those moments of joyful remembrance, there was bitter awareness of the street violence that took her away. In the front row,...
Tags: Barack Obama, Cook County Board of Commissioners, Crime, Law and Justice, Cook County Government, Bobby Rush
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Rep. Aaron Schock flexes political muscles on potential GOP governor foes
Clout StreetU.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, who’s mulling a 2014 Republican bid for governor, chastised a pair of potential rivals Thursday, saying state Sens. Bill Brady and Kirk Dillard have “proven nothing more than they can lose an election.” “...Tags: Adam Kinzinger, U.S. Congress, Kirk W Dillard, Government, Regional Authority
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Md. panel ponders smart-meter alternative
Some Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. customers — Del. Glen Glass of Harford County included — are convinced that they don't want a smart meter wirelessly sending data about their energy usage day in and out.
Some, like Eric Rockel of...Tags: Radio, Consumers, Apples, Government, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Seer madness: Readers and I do our duty, predict 2013
Change of SubjectWith the help of several Latin scholars I’ve come up with a fittingly snooty motto for this column’s annual exercise in forecasting the news: Non coniectare imprudentior esset Translation: Not to conjecture is imprudent. Inspiration: “Is... -
Any judge in Vanecko case should be judged — and 'scrubbed'
Within seconds of McHenry County Judge Maureen McIntyre being appointed to preside over Illinois' political heater manslaughter case on Friday, you could almost hear her being "scrubbed." It's not about cleansing bubbles. Not in Illinois. "Scrubbing" is...
Tags: Edward Vrdolyak, Murder, Crime, Law and Justice, Illinois Supreme Court, Judges
Feb 6, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Jan 31, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Jan 31, 2013
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Jan 31, 2013
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Feb 14, 2013
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Jan 28, 2013
|Story| AM News
Feb 13, 2013
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Feb 9, 2013
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Jan 24, 2013
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Jan 13, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 5, 2013
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Jan 6, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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