Jeff Coen is a deputy metro editor overseeing the Tribune’s criminal justice report and GA desk. With more than 25 years of experience, he was previously an investigative and enterprise reporter for the paper, and covered both Chicago’s main criminal courthouse and U.S. District Court, including both trials of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
In the fall of 2008, John Harris was chief of staff to the governor of Illinois, a lawyer at the peak of his career offering advice to the state's top...
Defense lawyers for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich who hoped to drag President Barack Obama into their client's corruption trial this summer were rejected Friday by the judge overseeing the case....
Defense lawyers for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich who hoped to drag President Barack Obama into their client's corruption trial this summer were rejected Friday by the judge overseeing the case....
Just weeks before the start of his federal corruption trial, ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich sought Thursday to tie his credibility to that of President Barack Obama by asking that the...
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich had a brief and unremarkable career as an amateur boxer, so he certainly got the message Wednesday when a federal judge used the sport to explain...
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich had a brief and unremarkable career as an amateur boxer, so he certainly got the message Wednesday when a federal judge used the sport to explain...
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich strutted up to a bank of microphones outside his lawyers' offices in jeans, a blazer and television makeup Tuesday and all but challenged U.S. Attorney Patrick...
A little more than six weeks before former Gov. Rod Blagojevich is to stand trial on corruption charges in federal court, prosecutors on Monday sought to put limits on the...
A Chicago cabdriver who authorities say recently talked of bombing a stadium was arrested downtown Friday while on the job and charged with trying to send a few hundred dollars...
David Coleman Headley pleaded guilty Thursday in the most significant terrorism case ever linked to Chicago, acknowledging he was an operative here who traveled to India multiple times to scout...