Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (for which WGN radio and television are named), it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is currently the eighth largest newspaper in the United States by circulation (and became the second largest under Tribune's ownership after the Chicago Tribune's parent company purchased the Los Angeles Times).[3] Traditionally published as a broadsheet, on January 13, 2009, the Tribune announced it would continue publishing as a broadsheet for home delivery, but would publish in tabloid format for newsstand, news box and commuter station sales. (source: Wikipedia.org)
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At first blush, the criminal cases against Jussie Smollett and Harry “The Hook” Aleman would seem to have little in common.
One involves a minor celebrity who gained international notoriety for allegedly staging a hoax hate crime on himself. The other was a shadowy Outfit enforcer who twice stood trial for the 1972 gangland slaying of a union steward.
But even though Aleman’s decidedly more serious case unfolded decades — and worlds — apart from Smollett’s, it now provides an intriguing look at the legal pathway prosecutors might use to block Smollett’s attempts to get the new charges against him thrown out of court on double-jeopardy grounds.
And linked to both cases is the same Cook County judge — Michael Toomin.