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Year-round tennis soon will be coming to Plainfield. Village trustees Monday approved site plans for an indoor tennis facility at Normantown Road and 119th Street. Trustees are expected to approve zoning changes to allow for the club at a future...

Public corruption ROD BLAGOJEVICH: The first impeachment of a governor in Illinois history occurred in 2009 after Blagojevich was charged with attempting to sell the Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama. At Blagojevich's first trial, he was...

Michael Gough Actor played butler in 'Batman' movies Michael Gough, 94, a British actor best known for playing Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred in a series of "Batman" movies, died Thursday at home in England, his former wife Anneke Wills said through her...

Conrad Black, the wealthy Canadian native who was chairman of a Chicago-based newspaper empire, will be resentenced in June on two counts that survived an appellate court’s review of his 2007 fraud conviction, a federal judge decided today. Black,...

Defendants facing criminal charges usually shun the limelight. Not Conrad Black. The former owner of the Chicago Sun-Times has a date with federal prosecutors in Chicago in less than two weeks. But it will take more to silence this outspoken British lord...

Patrick Fitzgerald has been living a dual life. As the top federal prosecutor in northern Illinois, Fitzgerald has solidified a reputation as a no-nonsense corruption buster--"Eliot Ness with a Harvard degree," as a friend once described him.In his other...

(WGN-AM)- The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a potentially significant appeal from Conrad Black, the jailed former newspaper executive who contends he was wrongly convicted under a broadly worded anti-fraud law that makes it a crime to deprive...

Former top executives of Chicago Sun-Times owner Hollinger International Inc. "cheated and defrauded" investors and filed misleading public documents, the Securities and Exchange Commission alleged Monday in a federal lawsuit. The civil suit is the first...

Describing Hollinger International Inc. as a "corporate kleptocracy," independent investigators accused the company's top two former executives of looting the firm and lambasted its high-profile board of directors for allowing unparalleled business...

In the report of financial escapades at Hollinger International Inc., some of the harshest criticism is leveled at Richard Perle, a member of the company's board of directors. A one-time assistant U.S. defense secretary and a leading proponent of the...

Barbara Amiel-Black, wife of press baron Conrad Black, liked to tip the doorman at posh New York clothing retailer Bergdorf Goodman--and then expense it to her husband's company, Sun-Times owner Hollinger International Inc. Chicago-based Hollinger also...

Developer Donald Trump has picked prominent Chicago real estate firm U.S. Equities Realty to handle leasing for his proposed mixed-use skyscraper on the riverfront site of the Chicago Sun-Times. The selection was announced as questions surfaced in real...