Chicago Tribune/
After a goodbye tour that stretched from Ravenswood Manor neighborhood to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Rod Blagojevich turned, waved and disappeared yesterday behind the gates of a federal prison.
Related:
- Rod Blagojevich begins 14-year sentence at a Colorado federal prison [Sun-Times]
- Blagojevich leaves Chicago for 14-year prison term [ABC-7]
- Blago Attorneys: Hard to Say Goodbye [Fox Chicago]
Chicago Tribune/
Amid a crush of media and well-wishers, ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich left his Ravenswood Manor home on the North Side early this morning for a prison cell in Colorado.
Related:
- Blagojevich leaves home, heading for prison [Daily Herald]
- Blagojevich leaves home to report to Colorado prison [Chicago Sun-Times]
- Prison job, tedium await former governor Rod Blagojevich [USA TODAY]
- Convicted former Gov. Rod Blagojevich steps off plane in Denver, headed for prison [Washington Post]
Looking for a pen pal? Just in case you'd like to send Rod Blagojevich a letter in prison, the Sun-Times goes the extra mile on reader service, helpfully publishing his new address. May we suggest you ship him a get-out-of-jail file, baked into a pound cake with a crust that is f----ing golden?
Sun-Times/
Rod Blagojevich’s lengthy 14-year sentence made it difficult for him to qualify for the lowest-security prisons in the federal system. It’s part of the reason he’s ended up in Englewood, Colo. But that could change.
Dana Kozlov
In these days of declining news budgets and consumer "investigative" reporting, it's always nice to see a local television news operation shelling out the big bucks for an important story.
On the other hand, it's especially galling to see those kinds of expenditures on an utterly pointless ratings stunt. Take, for example, CBS-2's Dana Kozlov, who is in Colorado reporting on Rod Blagojevich's entry into federal prison there ... for the next four days. Read more...
