McHenry County Blog

The Chicago Tribune thought McHenry County State’s Attorney Lou Bianchi’s trial was a big deal.

There were three reporters, plus a photographer assigned to cover the charges–only one argued in Assistant Special Prosecutor Thomas McQueen’s closing arguments–that Bianchi committed multiple counts of official misconduct in his administration of the office.

The problem was the Special Prosecutors in this politically motivated action “got both the law and the facts wrong,” to put in the words of First Electric Newspaper‘s Pete Gonigan.

Judge Gordon Graham

Judge Joseph McGraw

That’s the long and the short of the decision by Circuit County Judge Joseph McGraw, the thoughtful jurist from Winnebago County, who was appointed to hear the multiple defective cases spawned by Special Prosecutor Henry Tonigan after his appointment by then-Associate Judge Gordon Graham.

The Chicago Sun-Times also had a reporter present, tasked from Elgin’s Daily Courier-News, I believe.

It’s story was considerably shorter.