Vernon Hills
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Defending a columnist's subject choicesOct 31, 2021 4:28 pm - A friend of mine, who is a regular reader of this column, told me the other day that he hadn't seen me in the paper the previous week. I replied that my column was in t...
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Juror who voted to spare Luna's life 'at peace' with her decisionOct 31, 2021 4:11 pm - The lone juror whose vote spared Juan Luna's life in the Brown's Chicken trial last week is praying for the families of seven people slain in a Palatine restaurant 14 ye...
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Families' reactions reflect split views of justiceOct 31, 2021 4:11 pm - Some had hoped desperately for this. Others had wished publicly for Juan Luna's death, their eyes watering over when jurors said no. But the grief-stricken families of t...
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Trial 'took a toll on us all'Oct 31, 2021 4:11 pm - For five weeks, they've sat in the same chairs and listened to tearful testimony and gruesome details of the bloody case. They couldn't sleep. They couldn't see their fa...
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Thoughtfulness saved life of man who didn't think of othersOct 31, 2021 4:11 pm - It's not so easy to snuff out a life -- when you think about it. After thinking about it for two hours in a room by themselves, a jury of 12 people from different walks ...
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'Violence does not end violence'Oct 31, 2021 4:11 pm - In a rare display of mid-trial unity Tuesday, Juan Luna's relatives joined the family of one his victims outside the Cook County courthouse Tuesday morning to protest th...
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Pondering death for LunaOct 31, 2021 4:11 pm - Five years ago, Manny Castro vowed to "pull the plug" on the man charged with murdering his teenage son and six others in a Palatine restaurant. Yet a day after 12 juror...
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Degorski's fate intertwined with Luna'sOct 31, 2021 4:11 pm - Jim Degorski appeared in court Friday with his lawyers to hash out when he will face a jury that will rule on his alleged role in the Brown's Chicken murders. He stood ...
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Now, should Brown's reward be paid?Oct 31, 2021 4:11 pm - The killers of seven people at the Palatine Brown's Chicken have had a bounty of more than $100,000 on their heads since the vicious slayings in 1993. Yet with Thursday'...
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Suburbanites will always carry sadness for Brown's victimsOct 31, 2021 4:11 pm - One piece of the puzzling murder that has haunted the suburbs since a cold, bleak January night in 1993 finally fit into place Thursday just as a sunny, glorious May aft...