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Government Widens Chicago Police Torture Probe: Report

Chicago Tribune | Steve Mills and Jeff Coen | Posted 03.07.2009 | Chicago

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Federal prosecutors continue to investigate decades-old allegations that Chicago police routinely tortured murder suspects, focusing on a half-dozen d...

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Attorney General Madigan Moving Burge Police Torture Cases To Cook County State's Attorney

Chicago Sun-Times | John Conroy and Maurice Possley | Posted 01.22.2009 | Chicago

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After five years of fighting to keep Chicago Police torture cases from being reopened, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is seeking to shift resp...

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Police Union To Pay For Jon Burge's Federal Defense

Chicago Tribune | David Heinzmann and Steve Mills | Posted 01.05.2009 | Chicago

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The union representing Chicago's police officers has decided to pay for the criminal defense of indicted former detective Cmdr. Jon Burge, who is faci...

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The City's Massive Lawsuit Payments

Chicago Reader | Mike Dumke | Posted 01.01.2009 | Chicago

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In January, after years of legal and political battles, the city agreed to pay $19.8 million to settle lawsuits by four men who were tortured by polic...

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Studs' Last Stand

Curtis Black | Posted 12.05.2008 | Chicago

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Studs Terkel spent his life giving voice to the concerns of the voiceless, and it's a mark of his consistency that in his final days he stood up for men who were denied fair trials decades ago.

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Keeping Score In Chicago Episode 3: The Scary Episode

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 11.28.2008 | Chicago

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Everything on this week's episode will freak you out: From the Jon Burge Torture Timeline, to the Jennifer Hudson saga.

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Chicago Police, Burge And Current Interrogation Practices

Tracy Siska | Posted 11.27.2008 | Chicago

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For all the bellowing about the fact that more should have been done twenty years ago to stop Burge, nothing is being done to stop the illegal and abusive tactics of today.

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Burge Pleads Not Guilty

Posted 11.27.2008 | Chicago

UPDATE Carol Marin reports that the Fraternal Order of Police is rumored to be paying for Burge's criminal defense. Burge lawyer Bill Gamboney said o...

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State's Attorney Candidates Clash At Debate

Chicago Sun-Times | Rummana Hussain | Posted 11.24.2008 | Chicago

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he three Cook County state's attorney hopefuls weighed in on the recent federal indictment of former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge in a televised deb...

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Daley Sarcastic About Burge Torture

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.23.2008 | Chicago

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Mayor Daley on Thursday issued a sarcastic blanket apology for the alleged torture of suspects by former Chicago Police Lt. Jon Burge. "The best way ...

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Police Torture and Mayor Daley

Rob Warden | Posted 11.21.2008 | Chicago

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U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald finally has done what Richard M. Daley should have done 26 years ago: He has indicted retired Chicago Police Detective Jon Burge for leading a band of brutal white cops who tortured hundreds of African-American suspects in criminal cases.

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Jon Burge Arrested In Torture Cases

AP | Mike Robinson | Posted 11.21.2008 | Chicago

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Scroll down for video of Mayor Daley's response, the alleged victims speaking out, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald explaining the charges and more ba...

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Jon Burge, The Olympics and Torture in Chicago

Monroe Anderson | Posted 09.19.2008 | Chicago

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In a quixotic quest for justice, a civil rights group is out to expose America's third-largest city as, according to an attorney, "the torture capital of the world."

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