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Jacque Mapes, longtime studio art director and set decorator whose career began at RKO in 1939 and later included a long personal and professional relationship with producer Ross Hunter, died Saturday ...

Former House Speaker Michael Madigan’s longtime chief of staff is now a federal inmate, the highest-ranking associate of America’s longest-serving speaker to go to prison — so far. Tim Mapes, 69, ...

Tim Mapes, former chief of staff to ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan, was captured on dozens of undercover FBI recordings talking about his family, political fundraising and his ouster in a 2018 ...

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The jury in the perjury trial of longtime Democratic insider Tim Mapes will start its first full day of deliberations Thursday, weighing whether the longtime aide to former Democratic House Speaker ...

Cate Blanchett stars in the controversial new movie Truth, which revolves around the 2004 "Rathergate" scandal. In the film, out Oct. 16, Blanchett plays Mary Mapes, the CBS News producer who was ...

Mary Mapes received a care package from two of her best girlfriends the other day. What to send the woman in the eye of the CBS News firestorm? Wine, of course. And chocolates. A romance novel, ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...