CHICAGO (AP) --A mega-millionaire who for decades stayed in the shadows of Illinois power even as he wielded enormous influence looked on Wednesday at his corruption trial as prosecutors shined a ...

Update: "Cellini business interests remain extensive, documents show." Steve Rhodes asks an interesting question today: "Did the media fail to properly scrutinize Cellini all these years?" It's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, center, departs the federal courthouse with unidentified family members after Judge James Zagel sentenced him to 366 days in prison and a $75,000 fine Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, in ...

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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Benvenuto Cellini is set to follow the same path to Epsom as last year's Derby winner, Lambourn, by contesting next month's ...

Veteran sports talk host Nick Cellini is officially out of purgatory after 28 months. The entire Mayhem in the AM team from the now defunct sports talk station 790/The Zone station is at its former ...