Merrick Wayne News Today

Martina Standley was 32 on Nov. 13, 2019, when a police officer turned the wheel of his SUV, knocking her down near 71st Street and Jeffery Boulevard, causing serious injuries.

Judge Mary Kathleen McHugh was in the car when Associate Judge Mohammed Ghouse was caught driving drunk in Hinsdale, records show.

URBANA — A Champaign County judge Wednesday ordered the city of Urbana to release police reports sought by a watchdog group under the Freedom of Information Act while scolding two government lawyers for withholding information from him. Judge Jason Bohm said attorneys for the Illinois State Police and Illinois State Appellate Prosecutor’s office “certainly appear to have violated the spirit” of the code of professional conduct for lawyers by failing to give him information a...