The Tribune has reviewed the names of people who have received pardons or commutations going back to the 1950s. Here’s a look at people with Chicago or Illinois connections who have been ...

The 27-year-old dedicated a podcast and a speech at the Republican National Convention to advocate for her reality star ...

Those four figures and their pardons aren't the only evidence of a Justice Department de-emphasizing public corruption cases.

On the day he left prison and returned to the Kankakee home where ... of a charismatic young Democrat who promised to clean up Springfield — Rod Blagojevich. Later, as federal investigators probed his ...

Tyler Bohannon, the legislative liaison for the Illinois Department of Agriculture, said that his department opposes the bill ...

George Ryan's corruption case overshadowed a nationally historic move to halt the state’s death penalty and empty its Death Row amid concerns of widespread misconduct in capital cases.

Perhaps predictably, Joe Exotic (full name Joseph Maldonado-Passage) is now peeved that Donald Trump issued a pardon for Todd and Julie Chrisley. The Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness star ...

Trump said he also is considering pardons for men convicted in the kidnapping plot against Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ...

President Donald Trump says he is pardoning Scott Jenkins, a former Virginia sheriff who was sentenced to 10 years in prison ...

LORI HEALEY, one of the most consequential behind-the-scenes political players in Chicago’s modern history, died Saturday after battling a form of pancreatic cancer, according to her family. She was ...

President Donald Trump has issued a full and unconditional pardon for Scott Jenkins, a former Virginia sheriff convicted in ...