Michael Tarm

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President Barack Obama addresses the crowd during an early voting and campaign rally for Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn at Chicago State University Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014, in Chicago. Early voting in Illinois starts Monday for the Nov. 4, election. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Obama urges Quinn supporters to vote early

Michael Tarm · October 20, 2014 2:56 am

FILE - In this May 28, 2014 file photo, an unidentified man plays a video gaming machine in Huntley, Ill. On Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, the Chicago Crime Commission will formally launch a campaign against illegal video gambling machines at bars and other venues across Illinois. (AP Photo/Daily Herald, Brian Hill, File) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT

Group targets ‘sweepstakes’ machines in Illinois

Michael Tarm · October 16, 2014 5:34 am

Taiwanese man pleads guilty in North Korea case

Michael Tarm · October 10, 2014 7:48 pm

Trader accused of manipulating commodity prices

Michael Tarm · October 3, 2014 12:39 am

Chicago court hears arguments in Holocaust case

Michael Tarm · September 30, 2014 10:51 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010, file photo, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee member Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., left, sits next to fellow member Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Allegations against Burris, 77, who held a Senate seat from 2009 to 2010, arose during a pre-trial hearing Friday, Sept. 26, 2014, for a Chicago man charged with illegally lobbying U.S. lawmakers to lift sanctions against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Ex-Sen. Roland Burris an issue in Chicago trial

Michael Tarm · September 28, 2014 1:40 am

Sally Buzbee, Chief of Bureau for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C., responds to a question during a session of the APME conference dealing with media access from the local level to the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Journalists criticize White House for ‘secrecy’

Michael Tarm · September 18, 2014 1:10 am

APNewsBreak: Chicago DEA chief heading to DC

Michael Tarm · September 16, 2014 8:14 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2009 file photo Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrives at a news conference in Chicago. A federal appeals court has taken on the issue of pay-to-play corruption in Illinois under disgraced ex-Gov. Blagojevich. The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit by riverboat casinos in a ruling Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. The suit alleges that racetrack owners bribed Blagojevich to push through legislation that transferred 3 percent of casino revenue to the racetracks. The Chicago-based court says the case required it to "once again to decide whether some shenanigans" in the Legislature "and governor's office crossed the line from the merely unseemly to the unlawful." (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green,File)

Blagojevich, state corruption feature in ruling

Michael Tarm · August 18, 2014 11:01 pm

Ex-CEO of red-light firm faces corruption charges

Michael Tarm · August 14, 2014 12:09 am

Prosecutors: Chicago gang leader among 35 arrested

Michael Tarm · August 7, 2014 11:43 pm

Gov. Quinn to live off equivalent of minimum wage

Michael Tarm · July 27, 2014 9:53 pm