Caitlyn Rosen

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CHICAGO (CN) — A former building inspector reiterated to a Seventh Circuit panel on Wednesday that his corruption conviction should be overturned because of an unconstitutionally vague law. In 2023, a federal jury found Lester Crowder guilty on five counts of using a facility in interstate commerce — his cellphone — to violate the Illinois bribery statute. He appealed his conviction in 2024, and cited ambiguity with the statute as a reason for his conviction to be vacated.

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CHICAGO (CN) — An Indiana law that allows police to prohibit people from coming within 25 feet of them if they are engaged in official duties was met by a trepidatious Seventh Circuit panel Tuesday morning. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Indiana Broadcasters Association, the Indiana chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Indianapolis Star and Nextstar Media challenged the law on First and Fourteenth Amendment grounds after its initial passage in 2023.

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CHICAGO (CN) — Forget about "Da Bears" — Chicago has a new mascot: "Da Pope."Cardinal Robert Prevost, a 69-year-old who grew up in the southwest Chicago suburbs, was the first North American selected for the papacy on Thursday. He took the name Pope Leo XIV and succeeded Pope Francis, who died in April. When a billow of white smoke emerged from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, the excitement in Rome was palpable.

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The government says the Illinois workplace privacy law discourages employers to use the federal E-Verify employment eligibility program. CHICAGO (CN) — The Department of Justice sued the state of Illinois, the Illinois Department of Labor, its director Jane Flanagan and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul Thursday over a state workplace privacy law it says impedes on federal immigration authority.

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WAUKEGAN, Ill. (CN) — A Highland Park man convicted of a mass shooting at a suburban Fourth of July parade was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Thursday. Robert Crimo III entered a guilty plea on March 3 in connection to the 2022 parade massacre that left seven people dead and dozens more injured. The 24-year-old pleaded guilty to 69 felonies, including 21 counts of murder — three counts for each person killed — and 48 counts of attempted murder.