Nobody enters Stateville Correctional Center thinking they will be out soon. Almost every man at the prison, which is located about 40 miles southwest of Chicago, has been sentenced to a minimum of 20 years; some have been sentenced to life without…

If you’re on social media, you’ve likely had friends ask you to donate to their favorite causes to celebrate birthdays or to support disaster relief after tragedies. You see other people in your network contributing, and you’re drawn to give as well,…

Last fall, I was helping with a voter registration drive at a high school. Although the first hour was slow, we managed to sign up two students. After the second student was done, I said: "Well, two is better than none, right?" And then I waited for…

Every day during the trial, Frank Daily passed the man with no arms and no legs who always smiled and cheerfully greeted him. Gordie Farrell, a Wisconsin farmer, sat at the plaintiff ’s table, where his attorneys argued that the tractor he left…

Learning to be free while sitting in a maximum-security prison. By Nancy Shepherdson The cells of the Illinois State Penitentiary in Stateville, Illinois, as seen in July 1925. (Photo: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) Nobody enters Stateville…

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In a courtroom in downstate Tazewell County, the 8-foot-tall face of a corporate executive looms over the jury, a projection of his video deposition. The same executive is sitting in the witness stand. Both versions are facing Bruce Pfaff, who is…

You won’t find much about Joe Gagliardo or his cases online. “My whole approach is to be discreet,” says the Chicago labor and employment litigator. He has had more than his share of high-profile clients, including Illinois governors, Chicago mayors,…

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Chicago trial attorney Peter King sometimes stops by a courtroom to watch Emily Nicklin take witnesses apart on cross. “Emily has the rare combination among trial lawyers of being intelligent, hardworking and practical,” says King, a Canel, Davis &…

In the spring of 1970, Steve Glynn was sitting in a jail cell in a Madison courthouse, bruised from head to toe. Two weeks away from graduating with honors from the UW–Madison Law School, and already a husband and father, he’d dared, that May night,…

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In the beginning of the end, as Tim LaHaye tells it, millions of people will disappear off the face of the earth, “raptured” up to heaven. Over the following seven years, tribulations of all kinds--demon locusts, seas of blood, nuclear war--will…

Like most busy people, I thought I was pretty good at managing my time. Deal with top-priority items first. Check. Handle each piece of paper only once. Check. Do three things at a time. Check, check, check. Sure, I got a lot done. But as I became…

Ponce offers visitors a full calendar of events, from the traditional pre-Lenten masked Carnival to the monthly street-side jazz and folk concerts. Conta (Issue: November 1991)..

Viewpoints Rotary’s Membership Leads program handles the introductions; the rest is up to your club Club officer installations, as important as they are, tend to have a sameness — announce names and titles, swear them in, applaud. But when I heard…