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SYCAMORE, Ill. — A former Washington state policeman convicted of kidnapping and murdering a young Illinois girl more than a half century ago was sentenced Monday to life in prison. Jack McCullough, 73, was convicted in September in one of the oldest unsolved crimes in American history to make it to trial. Life in prison was the maximum sentence he faced. AP Photo/Daily Chronicle, Kyle Bursaw Pat Quinn and Charles Ridulph, brother and sister of Maria Ridulph, take questions outside the DeKalb County Courthouse in Syacmore, I... Full story
CHICAGO (AP) — A 73-year-old man who was convicted this fall of kidnapping and murdering a little girl more than a half-century earlier was expected to return to court Monday for sentencing. Jack McCullough faces a maximum sentence of life in prison when he stands before a judge in the DeKalb County community of Sycamore, the same town where 7-year-old Maria Ridulph's life ended in December 1957. AP Photo/Courtesy the Ridulph family via the Chicago Sun-Times Maria Ridulph sits with family members in Illinois. Jack M... Full story
HICAGO (AP) — Thousands of teachers walked off the job Monday in Chicago's first schools strike in 25 years, after union leaders announced that months-long negotiations had failed to resolve a contract dispute with school district officials by a midnight deadline. The walkout in the nation's third-largest school district posed a tricky challenge for the city and Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who said he would push to end the strike quickly as officials figure out how to keep nearly 400,000 children safe and occupied. AP Photo/M. S...
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced Rod Blagojevich to 14 years for corruption that included trying to sell or trade an appointment to the Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama. AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, right, departs his home with his wife Patti in Chicago, Wednesday, or the second day of his sentencing hearing on 18 corruption counts, including trying to to auction off President Barack Obama's old Senate seat. It's one of the stiffest penalties for corruption in a...
CHICAGO (AP) — The Rod Blagojevich who once challenged a prosecutor to face him like a man, the glad-handing politician who took to celebrity TV shows to profess his innocence, was nowhere to be found Wednesday as he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption. Frowning and pulling nervously at his tie, the disgraced former governor seemed like another person as he stepped up to the address the sentencing judge. His bluster, once as conspicuous as his famously lavish head of dark hair, wiped out since his June c...
Northwestern to investigate sex toy demonstration DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO — Northwestern University's president said Thursday that he is "troubled and disappointed" that a psychology professor allowed a couple to engage in a sex act involving a motorized sex toy in front of dozens of students, and he is calling for an investigation. Hours after accounts of the Feb. 21 class appeared in local newspapers — including the university's defense of Professor John Michael Bailey's decision to allow students to wit... Full story
Hundreds of cars are seen stranded on Lake Shore Drive, Wednesday in Chicago. A winter blizzard of historic proportions wobbled an otherwise snow-tough Chicago, stranding hundreds of drivers for up to 12 hours overnight on the city's showcase lakeshore thoroughfare and giving many city schoolchildren their first ever snow day. AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato A tow truck is seen on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago where hundreds of cars are stranded Wednesday. A winter blizzard of historic proportions wobbled an otherwise snow-tough...
Nearly $730,000 in cash, about 1,000 pieces of jewelry and loaded handguns found hidden alongside recording devices in a mobster's suburban home show there are still plenty of mysteries to unravel about the notorious Chicago Outfit. The discovery in a secret compartment behind a family portrait in Frank Calabrese Sr.'s home — a year after the massive Operation Family Secrets trial sent Calabrese and several others to prison — may trigger a fresh look at everything from unsolved shootings to a jewel theft ring once run by the... Full story
