For weeks, Chicago’s U.S. attorney’s office has tried to tamp down a scandal over alleged misconduct in grand jury sessions by focusing on a single prosecutor who handled the now-defunct “Broadview ...

More than 1,000 grand jury presentations are under review after federal prosecutors in Chicago were forced to dismiss charges in the "Broadview Six" case due to grand jury abuses and prosecutorial ...

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U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros announced plans Monday to review nearly 20 years of grand jury proceedings involving a veteran prosecutor at the center of the tainted “Broadview Six” case as he moved to ...

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson declared a “civil emergency” in the suburb, citing threats by protesters to disrupt the town’s board of trustees meeting, as well as threats against her and Village ...