August 10, 2011 - Chicago Sun-Times

Former Gov. Jim Thompson, former U.S. Sen. Adlai Stevenson III and other legal and political heavyweights are asking the Illinois Supreme Court to order hearings into claims by prisoners that they were tortured by former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge and his detectives.

Burge is serving a four-year federal prison sentence for perjury in connection with allegations that he presided over torture of criminal suspects from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Continue reading...