With decades of futility hard-wired into their political DNA, DuPage County Democrats haven’t had success sending one of their own to Springfield since cumulative voting ended in the Illinois ... 51, of Bartlett, and self-employed marketing ...

(The death penalty in Illinois was abolished last year ... “Once it became a little more real, now all of a sudden he wants a lawyer. Now all of a sudden he wants a trial. He very quickly shifted from, ‘I just wanted to plead guilty and get the ...

Oregon is one of only four states — Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin are the others ... “It sort of died out,” said Dennis Bartlett of the American Bail Coalition, a trade group for the bail bond industry. “You had an environment in which ...