Illinois dispensaries are staffing up and remodeling in preparation for the legalization of recreational marijuana. The General Assembly approved the marijuana legislation last month and it now awaits a signature from Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker. He campaigned on legalization, so ...

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They were close. After three weeks of respectful but increasingly tense deliberations, 11 jurors were ready to convict Rod Blagojevich of what prosecutors called a “political corruption crime spree” that would have sent yet another former Illinois governor to prison. ...

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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, on trial for corruption in Chicago federal court, was found guilty of making false statements to federal agents. The jury deadlocked on the remaining 23 counts Blagojevich faced. Prosecutors said immediately after the verdict was ...

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Raymond Stanford has followed Illinois politics for decades, studying newspapers and watching television news. Even so, he doesn’t recognize the state’s new governor. “I don’t know nothing about Pat Quinn,” said Stanford, 48. “Who is he? All I know is ...

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Rod Blagojevich, the 40th governor of Illinois and the subject of federal corruption charges including the attempted sale of President Barack Obama's former U.S. Senate seat, was convicted of abuse of power by state legislators. He is to be removed from office. The Illinois senate voted to convict Blagojevich on one article of impeachment. A two-thirds vote was required. In a speech before the senate at the state capitol in Springfield, Blagojevich said Thursday he never "intended to violate any law" and that his conviction on unproven charges would set a "dangerous precedent."

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Photo by Mark Cowan, Bloomberg News Illinois State Supreme Court Justice Thomas Fitzgerald, center, convenes the members of the state senate on the opening day of the impeachment trial of Gov. Rod Blagojevich at the state capitol in Springfield, Ill., ...

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Five Missouri plaintiffs’ firms and an Illinois firm nailed down a $19.5 million settlement in a class action lawsuit over an underground gasoline lake in Hartford, Ill. Madison County, Ill., Circuit Court Judge Daniel Stack on Monday gave final approval ...

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Blagojevich seeks to disqualify Fitzgerald from case Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, accused of trying to sell the vacant U.S. Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama, asked a judge to disqualify Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald from the case. In papers ...

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