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Weekend you better enjoy that for another few days. Once the rain until we get into wednesday. We have air quality alert for current level ozone. Ozone you cant see or smell but it can cause problems for people with respiratory ailments. 71 degrees right now. Its 63 and garlic. Looking toward the satellite composite we dont see anything. We continue to be tried we have extended stretches until wednesday. Todays High Temperature is 85. It will feel warm by the afternoon. No rain coming up. Tomorrow we make 91 its hot and humid. It will feel like the upper 90s tomorrow. Wednesday were down to 76...

Tim Mapes, who for years served as the abrasive and sharp-tongued chief of staff to House Speaker Michael Madigan, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Monday for lying

But lawyers for Tim Mapes argue their client should be sentenced to time served, supervised release and “significant” community service.

Prosecutors are asking for up to about five years in prison for Tim Mapes, the former chief of staff to House Speaker Michael Madigan, arguing in a court filing late Monday that Mapes lied to a federal grand jury in a cynical attempt to protect his boss instead of serving the citizens of Illinois. “Mapes’ lies were calculated to thwart the government’s sprawling investigation of a series of ...

CHICAGO — A federal jury now has the perjury case against Tim Mapes, who is accused of lying to a grand jury investigating Mapes’ longtime boss, Democratic House Speaker Michael