Empathy for the Worst of Us
. . . Why do I feel the urge
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From plank roads to toll roads, and one-room school houses to flourishing universities, the suburbs and the Daily Herald have grown up since the newspaper's founding in 1872.
Guest columnist Eric Zorn: The "Why?" question has hung over the gut-wrenching story of Marilyn Lemak's actions since March 4, 1999, when she methodically drugged and suffocated her children in their picturesque Victorian home in Naperville. Now petitioning for executive clemency while serving a life sentence, she told me from prison that she still struggles to answer it herself.
GOP senator cries foul, says board members have been serving without confirmation
Gov. J.B. Pritzker yanked the appointment of two appointees to the Illinois Prisoner Review Board Tuesday, the same morning a Senate committee was scheduled to consider them.