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Paul Modrowski (born November 30, 1974) is an American man who was convicted of the 1992 murder of Dean Fawcett in Barrington, Illinois. The case was highly publicised in the Chicago area due to the dismemberment of Fawcett's body. Modrowski, 18 years old at the time, received a life sentence while his co-defendant Robert Faraci was found not ...
State Representative Gordon Fox (D) and Speaker of the House, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, bribery and filing a false tax return. Fox used $108,000 from his campaign account for personal expenses, accepted a $52,000 bribe to push for the issuance of a liquor license for a Providence restaurant in his role as a member of the Board of Licenses ...
Stone carvings in Brittany, France have been found depicting throwing sticks. Though originally designed for hunting and survival, the throwing stick can be used as a weapon in human conflicts, though the heavy non-returning boomerang was the only variant ever to become truly effective against a human opponent. [citation needed]
(The Center Square) – Whether Illinois should be enjoined from enforcing the state’s gun and magazine ban starting Monday is now up to a federal appeals court. Illinois enacted the Protect ...
He was the only Illinois governor to be impeached by the state House of Representatives and removed from office by the state Senate. In 2011 Blagojevich was found guilty of 18 counts of corruption, including attempting to sell or trade an appointment to fill Barack Obama's vacant seat in the U.S. Senate. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison. [35]
Land subsidence outside of Ruler Foods in Belleville, Ill., where an old mine below the store caused the land surrounding the building to sink into the ground on Sept. 26, 2023.
A judge has expunged the misdemeanor convictions of a St. Louis couple who waved guns at racial injustice protesters outside their mansion in 2020. Attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey filed a ...
Michael C. Finton, also known as Talib Islam (Arabic: طالب إسلام – Ṭạlib Islām meaning "student of Islam"; born 1980), is an American convert to Islam and a part-time cook who attempted to bomb the Paul Findley Federal Building and the adjacent offices of Congressman Aaron Schock in downtown Springfield, Illinois, on 24 September 2009.