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Former 29th Ward Ald. Ike Carothers, the 31st Chicago City Council member in the past 40 years to be sent to prison, is now staying in a halfway house, the Sun-Times reported earlier this week.
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Former Ald. Ike Carothers
In June 2010, Carothers was sentenced to 28 months in prison after he admitted to accepting a bribe for $40,000 in enovations to his Austin home in exchange for granting a zoning change for a controversial land development project.
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