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More than two years is a long time to wait for authorities to decide whether to charge a former Springfield man in the alleged strangulation death of a prison cellmate, the attorney for the dead man’s family says. Chicago lawyer David Lipschultz said he hasn’t received answers from Rob Jeffreys, acting director of the Illinois Department of Corrections, or David Searby Jr., state’s attorney for Perry County. Lipschultz, who represents the family of Earl Little, formerly of Rushville and Quincy, sent a letter Nov. 18 to Jeffreys and Searby asking why former Springfield resident Daniel M...

More than two years is a long time to wait for authorities to decide whether to charge a former Springfield man in the alleged strangulation death of a prison cellmate, the attorney for the dead man’s family says. Chicago lawyer David Lipschultz said he hasn’t received answers from Rob Jeffreys, acting director of the Illinois Department of Corrections, or David Searby Jr., state’s attorney for Perry County. Lipschultz, who represents the family of Earl Little, formerly of Rushville and Quincy, sent a letter Nov. 18 to Jeffreys and Searby asking why former Springfield resident Daniel M...

By Benjamin Cox on December 28, 2020 at 6:17am A West Central Illinois family has been waiting 2 years for the closure of a murder case that took the life of a family member while that family member was serving time in prison. The family of 33 year old Earl Little, formerly of Rushville and Quincy, died serving a 21-year sentence in the Pinckneyville Prison for an armed robbery in DuPage County only a few months after being sentenced. Little allegedly died of cervical ligature placement. Little’s family, who currently live in Beardstown and Quincy, has sent a letter to auth...

CHRISTY GUTOWSKI Chicago Tribune Gray had lived behind bars for more than 40 years, serving a life sentence for hiring a relative to kill his business partner in 1978. In the decades that followed, he tried to improve himself in prison, his lawyer said, working as a barber, a teacher and paralegal. He mentored younger men and ran an inmates’ chapter of the Jaycees charity, as well as other prison programs. Citing his age and poor health, Gray’s lawyer made a final plea for mercy dated Nov. 5. A day later, Gray died of complications related to COVID-19. Due to the novel c...

Surgeon general observes vaccine rollout at Chicago hospital By SOPHIA TAREENDecember 22, 2020 GMT CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams met Tuesday with Illinois health officials and stopped at a Chicago hospital to observe the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. Adams, who got his shot last week, encouraged the public to continue social distancing measures during the holidays and for people to avoid celebrating with anyone outside their households. “It’s really about having hope during the holidays,” he told reporters. “It’s about understanding if we hang on a little bit lo...