Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71) woke one morning and noticed something odd floating over his head: a halo. It had begun appearing there, he said, while he was in a prison cell down the street from the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The ABC7 I-Team has learned that Illinois' "King of Clout" is once again asking for special treatment from a federal judge. The story involves ex-con William Cellini, who was once a ...

William Cellini, Illinois’ ultimate political insider who for more than four decades worked quietly behind the scenes to amass wealth and power, was convicted Tuesday for joining an age-old conspiracy ...

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CHICAGO — William Cellini, who wielded enormous behind-the-scenes influence in Illinois for decades, was convicted Tuesday of conspiring to shake down the Oscar-winning producer of “Million Dollar ...

But for a long-ago blizzard, William Cellini might never have catapulted to a position of statewide political influence. As a freshly elected Springfield city streets commissioner, Cellini was in ...

On May 11, thieves stole a saltcellar worth $58,000,000 from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Austria. I’ll give you a moment to ponder the conjunction of a piece of tableware and all those zeros, and ...

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