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Aw, nuts! 'Hog' squeals and runs away
Change of SubjectFrom Sunday's print column I refused to salivate over the delicious prospect of Cook County Commissioner William Beavers, the self-styled "hog with the big nuts," taking the witness stand in his own defense. The splendiferous blowhard swore over and over.... -
Former cop charged with burglary wants to audition for acting jobs
Special to the TribuneA former Northbrook police officer charged with residential burglary and official misconduct asked a judge today to remove him from electronic home monitoring so that he can go to acting auditions and look for a job. Enrique Guzman, 34, was charged in...Tags: Northbrook, Prosecution, Electronics, Lawyers, FBI
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Man on parole for trying to shoot at police arrested in carjacking
Tribune reporterA man on parole for trying to shoot a police officer has been arrested for stealing a car from one woman and trying to rob another on the West Side, authorities said. Artavis Johnson, 31, of the 100 block of North Laramie Avenue in the South Austin...Tags: Douglas Park, Crimes, Prisons, Trials, Garfield Park
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New rules to govern Illinois foreclosures
The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday announced new rules governing mortgage foreclosures that will require lenders to prove to judges that they have exhausted all efforts to help a borrower before seeking a foreclosure judgment against the homeowner. The...
Tags: U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Foreclosures, Chicago Mortgages, Economy, Business and Finance, Business Enterprises
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Indictments against alleged hair salon bandit
Special to the TribuneGrand jury indictments on five felony counts of armed robbery were announced during a brief hearing this morning for an Evanston man accused of robbing hair salons across the Chicago area. Jason Logsdon, 41, looked at the ground and did not speak during...Tags: Cocaine, Trials, Broadview, Glen Ellyn, Niles
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Co-founder of 5 Rabbit leaves company amid legal skirmish
Tribune NewspapersAn ugly battle in Chicago's blooming craft beer landscape has come to a partial conclusion, with one of 5 Rabbit Cerveceria's two founding partners agreeing to leave the company. Isaac Showaki has sold his stake in the brewery after months of...Tags: Trials, Litigation
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'"Home"? We thought you said "to the Big House"'
Change of SubjectCommissioner Beavers may have gotten in over his head. But it had nothing to do with the IRS … Send that 78-year-old man home.... defense attorney Sam Adam Jr. in his unsuccessful closing argument to jurors today on behalf of...... -
Beavers defiant after convicted of tax evasion
Tribune reporterCook County Commissioner William Beavers was convicted today on tax-evasion charges at the federal courthouse in downtown Chicago. A jury convicted Beavers on one count of corruptly impeding the Internal Revenue Service and three counts of filing a false...Tags: Trials, FBI, Judges, Ray Charles, Crime, Law and Justice
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No blubbering from Beavers despite guilty verdict
Just after Bill Beavers left the federal courtroom guilty on all counts — but before he'd go downstairs to play the defiant old-school Chicago pol for the TV cameras — he gave me a quiet shrug. We were standing in the corridor Thursday...
Tags: Richard M. Daley, FBI, Ray Charles, Lobbying, Crime, Law and Justice
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North suburban road projects to impact communities
Major construction on Lake-Cook and Willow roads are among the headaches in store for North Shore motorists this spring and summer — but they are just two of the 75 projects outlined by officials recently for north Cook and Lake counties....
Tags: House Building, Northbrook, Transportation, Highway Transportation, Lake County (Illinois)
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Authorities: Man stole $28,000 worth of copper
Special to the TribuneBail was set at $50,000 in Cook County Circuit Court today for a Downers Grove man charged with selling $28,000 worth of copper materials taken from the Rolling Meadows firm where he worked, authorities said. Peter P. Dang, 51, of the 4000 block of...Tags: Theft, Rolling Meadows
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Woman gets 5 years in Skokie crash that killed boy, 8
Special to the TribuneA 24-year-old woman charged in the May crash in Skokie that claimed the life of a 8-year-old boy sobbed and asked forgiveness in court this morning before she was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Hanin Goma, of the 5000 block of Wright Terrace in Skokie,...Tags: Prisons, Trials, Disasters and Accidents, Justice System, Judges
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