CHICAGO (Reuters) - Escaped convict "Terrible" Tommy O'Connor can rest a little easier. The warped wooden gallows used more than a century ago to hang convicts in Chicago, beginning with those ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the Lansing Historical Society and Museum began offering tours of the decommissioned Kansas State Penitentiary last year, the ...
ST. LOUIS — More than eight decades since bootlegging gangster Charlie Birger became Illinois’ last person publicly hanged, the southern Illinois city that has clung to his legend finally has the case ...