• With property tax bills set to arrive in mailboxes over the next several days, it looks like they're going up by double-digits, even higher than previously expected.
• John Ambrose, a deputy U.S. Marshal accused of leaking information to mob members involved in the Family Secrets investigation, has been sentenced to four years in prison. When he was convicted in April, it was reportedly the first breach of the Witness Protection program.
• Former Chicago Bear Tank Johnson testified today in the murder trial of Michael Selvie, charged with shooting and killing Johnson's boyhood friend Willie Posey at the Ice Bar in December 2006.

The John Ambrose trial - the case of a former deputy U.S. Marshal who was accused of leaking information to the Chicago Outfit - has come to an end and Ambrose has been found guilty of one count of theft of information and one count of illegal disclosure of information; he was also acquitted on two charges of lying to federal authorities. more ›

If you wish "The Sopranos" were back on the air, tune into the John Ambrose trial. It has all the action, intrigue, betrayal and violence that the show used to have, except for one plot twist: This is all real. It's like "The Departed," if everyone hadn't died at the end of the movie and instead went to court. To get you up to speed, read below-- more ›

After originally refusing to cooperate with prosecutors in the Family Secrets case, Michael Marcello, brother of the Chicago Outfit's boss James "Little Jimmy" Marcello, has agreed to testify in the case of U.S. Marshal John Ambrose. Ambrose is accused of passing on confidential information about mobster-turned-state's witness Nicholas Calabrese even though Ambrose was assigned to protect Calabrese. Michael Marcello pleaded guilty in 2007 to running illegal video-gambling businesses and was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison. [Sun-Times] more ›