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Marissa Sulek joined CBS News Chicago in January 2025. Before Chicago, Marissa was a general assignment reporter in Nashville at WSMV, where she was nominated for Mid-South Emmy Awards for her ...

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, who was heralded for halting death penalties in Illinois — but later served time on a corruption conviction — has died at the age of 91. Ryan, a Republican who served ...

A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with error” that it might end an innocent life. By Robert D. McFadden George H.

KANKAKEE, Ill. (WLS) -- Illinois politicians reacted Friday to the death of 91-year-old former Illinois Governor George Ryan. The embattled Republican served as governor from 1999 to 2003. Ryan leaves ...

George Ryan, a former Illinois governor who was praised by human rights advocates for clearing the state’s death row and issuing a moratorium on executions, but who was later disgraced by a corruption ...