Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned convictions on two counts in the case against former Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley ...

The list of political heavyweights to face criminal prosecution at Chicago’s federal courthouse is dismally long and peppered with names such as Ryan, Blagojevich, Cellini, Vrdolyak, and Burke. But ...

Now that Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson has been convicted of federal tax charges, it falls to Mayor Lori Lightfoot to name someone to succeed him in the Daley family’s historical 11th Ward seat ...

Hours after the mayor announced the list of applicants vying to replace convicted Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, his lawyers filed a motion for a new trial Tuesday arguing in part that prosecutors made ...

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Six months after his release from federal prison, former Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson could be in hot water again after court probation officials accused him of failing to pay restitution for ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned convictions on two counts in the case against former Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson and remanded the case back to the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ...