The Illinois Supreme Court revoked former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's law license today. Plus, the Illinois General Assembly is rushing to prevent him from collecting a pension when he turns 55 in December. more ›

Patrick Daley made $708,999 from Concourse Communications less than a year after it made a contract with the city in 2006 to provide wireless access at both Midway and O'Hare. But did the Daley administration lie to the press? more ›

Jury selection in the Rod Blagojevich retrial starts in two days. Former Governor Sound Bite took to Fox News Chicago last night to try to influence the jury pool plead his innocence. (Kudos to Larry Yellen for trying to get some candid answers out of Blagojevich, by the way.) Blagojevich stayed with his "play all the tapes" script, which conveniently omits that playing all the tapes is up to Judge James Zagel, and that Blago himself can determine how much of the tapes can be played if his defense team decides to put him on the stand. It didn't happen the first time around, but one man believes that, given the chance, Blagojevich could make a convincing defense - his brother Rob. "I can tell you Rod can be his best defense," Rob Blagojevich said. more ›

Two Lyons village officials accidentally recorded a racially and sexually inappropriate conversation that they had in a police car last summer. Village President David Visk and Trustee Richard Schuppe activated a recording device in the squad car while he was driving it to the Fourth of July parade. Their excuse for the inappropriate conversation? Visk said, "If we had known we are going to be recorded, we wouldn't talk like that." Hmm... where have we heard that before? Oh yeah. more ›