James F. Holderman

Sometimes when a trial is over, a couple of jurors will approach Judge Joan Lefkow and make a sympathetic or admiring remark that lets her know that they know her story. She figures they've Googled her and found it, though some may have been around...

Court officials acknowledge that information revealed by the Tribune appears to show that a member of the federal jury that convicted Springfield power broker William Cellini concealed two felony convictions. Attorneys for Cellini said the information...

At the start of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's first corruption trial last year, federal Judge James Zagel denied a request from several news organizations to release jurors' names before opening statements. It didn't matter, Zagel said, that the Tribune'...

Thousands of Illinois adults with developmental disabilities — many of whom have spent years on a 21,000-plus waiting list for state services — will soon have more choices in housing under a proposed settlement to a long-running federal...

A federal judge on Wednesday approved a settlement to a long-running civil case that will force Illinois to begin moving hundreds of people with developmental and intellectual disabilities into more community-based homes and apartments of their choice....

State officials will begin drawing up plans to move 3,000 people with developmental and intellectual disabilities into community-based housing of their choice, as directed under a federal settlement approved Wednesday that allows for a six-year timetable....

A former head of the city's scandal-ridden Hired Truck Program was sentenced Tuesday to 2 years in prison as prosecutors disclosed he pocketed more than $56,000 in bribes from at least 30 trucking companies that wanted into the program. In a court filing...

A former head of the city's scandal-scarred Hired Truck Program pleaded guilty Friday to shaking down at least 10 trucking companies for kickbacks, but he has refused to cooperate in the burgeoning federal probe. Angelo Torres admitted playing an...

In the first guilty plea in the federal probe of Chicago's Hired Truck Program, an operator of a trucking company admitted Wednesday that he lied to the FBI about paying bribes to get and keep work in the scandal-scarred program. Martin McDonagh, 38,...

John "Quarters" Boyle expected to plead guilty to one count of extortion conspiracy Friday but backed off in hopes of working out a deal to avoid a trial on additional charges.For a moment, Boyle, a key figure in the federal probe of the city's Hired...