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LAHOOD’s BIG MOVES — STATE REPS SMACK KINZINGER — GIANNOULIAS’ FULL-CIRCLE GIFT Presented by Uber Driver Stories TGIF, Illinois. The TOP TALKER Congressman Darin LaHood has taken on a big role with the National Republican Congressional Committee — and he hasn’t ruled out a run for governor of Illinois. “Listen, there are a lot of people I respect in the state of Illinois who have asked me to consider the governor’s race,” he told Playbook in a phone interview Thursday. “I’m going to wait and see what happens with our remap and see how the spring legislative session goes...
Adobe Stock Photo Cook County prosecutors Friday dropped charges against a man who was convicted in a 1995 double gang-related murder that claimed the lives of two teenage girls on the Southwest Side. Nicholas Morfin, now 45, spent more than two decades in prison for the deadly shooting of Carrie Hovel and Helena Martin, both 13. The girls were killed after 15-year-old Eric Anderson, the son of a Chicago police officer, fired at a rival gang’s van. Morfin was accused of helping plan the attack. Ultimately, Morfin had not proved his innocence, Judge Arthur Hill Jr. said Friday. But the judge...
A Cook County judge on Friday threw out the case of a man who spent decades behind bars for the devastating double murder of two 13-year-old girls in 1995, paving the way for his release from prison.