Ex-senator tells how he picked an untouchable, Patrick Fitzgerald, to be U.S. attorney in Chicago

Source: Chicago Tribune

Politicians were dancing and singing all along the Chicago Way on Wednesday, after U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald announced he would step down. "I can hear the champagne corks popping all the way over here, and I'm in Virgin ...
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$4.1M Settlement Reached for Shackled Moms

Source: NBC Chicago

Former Cook County jail inmates, handcuffed to hospital beds during labor, say the procedure is against the law and are taking legal action. Cook County officials on Wednesday agreed to to pay more than $4 mil ...
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Judge OKs class-action lawsuit by female detainees who were shackled while pregnant

Source: Morris Daily Herald

CHICAGO (MCT) — A federal judge on Tuesday granted preliminary approval to a $4.1 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of a group of female detainees at the Cook County Jail who claimed they were shackled while th ...
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Attorneys complain of jail conditions for 3 accused of planning bombings at NATO summit

Source: Morris Daily Herald

CHICAGO (MCT) — Lawyers for three out-of-state men accused of plotting to firebomb police stations and other political targets during the NATO summit in Chicago complained Tuesday that their clients have been held in sol ...
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$4.5 million settlement in shackled prisoner case

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has agreed to pay $4.1 million to settle a lawsuit brought by pregnant prisoners who say they were shackled before, after, and in some cases during childbirth. More than 80 women sa ...
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$4.1M settlement for pregnant Cook Co. prison inmates

Source: WLS

May 22, 2012 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- A judge signed a $4.1 million preliminary settlement agreement in a class action suit for dozens of women. The women were inmates at the Cook County Jail when they were shackled during labor, childbirth ...
Full article at: WLS  More like this  4 days ago, 6:19pm CDT

NATO terrorism defendants remain in 'observation' cells

Source: WBEZ Chicago Public Media

A spokesman for Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says since Saturday three anti-NATO protesters accused of terrorism conspiracy have been held around-the-clock in hospital-white “observation” cells where they are isolated from each other and the rest o ...
Full article at: WBEZ Chicago Public Media  More like this  4 days ago, 4:31pm CDT