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Nic Flosi. August 2, 2024 at 3:55 PM. COLUMBIA, Ill. - Five men were arrested and charged in connection with a human trafficking operation in Monroe County, Illinois, following a two-day ...
1860s. Jacob Young, William Abrams, and Nancy Clem ran what author Wendy Gamber argues, in her book The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, was the first-ever Ponzi scheme. [ 1][ 2] In Munich, Germany, Adele Spitzeder founded the "Spitzedersche Privatbank" in 1869, promising an interest rate of 10 percent per month.
The watchdog overseeing agencies under Gov. J.B. Pritzker has referred 177 cases to law enforcement in which there was “reasonable cause to believe” a state worker “improperly obtained” a ...
Corruption in Illinois has been a problem from the earliest history of the state. [1] Electoral fraud in Illinois pre-dates the territory's admission to the Union in 1818. [2] Illinois had the third most federal criminal convictions for public corruption between 1976 and 2012, behind New York and California. A study published by the University ...
Joseph Smith encountered the criminal justice system in New York, Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. While in New York, Smith faced charges of being a "disorderly person" in 1826 and 1830. In Ohio, he was arrested multiple times on a variety of charges. On January 12, 1838, a warrant was issued for Smith's arrest on a charge of banking fraud.
The Naperville Police Department reported 224DUI arrests were made in 2022 — down three from 227in 2021 — placing the city seventh compared to other Illinois communities, other than Chicago ...
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There are 102 counties in Illinois. The most populous of these is Cook County, the second-most populous county in the United States and the home of Chicago, while the least populous is Hardin County. The largest by land area is McLean County, while the smallest is Putnam County. Illinois's FIPS state code is 17 and its postal abbreviation is IL.