Justice, Chicago style

Published July 25, 2010 4:00am ET



UPDATE: “Chicago judge to decide if his own accuser goes to jail,” March 26

A Chicago businessman with no previous record has been ordered to report to the infamous Cook County Jail Monday to finish serving his 60-day sentence for criminal contempt of court – the longest such sentence in Illinois history. To put this in perspective, the sentence was twice as long as a man in neighboring DuPage County got for throwing an object at a judge’s head.

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