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'Starved Rock killer' died last year, but his family is now seeking a rare posthumous pardon from Pritzker

The decades-long fight to clear Chester Weger’s name as the notorious "Starved Rock Killer" isn’t ending with his death. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board has scheduled a rare Oct. 6 hearing in Chicago on the family’s request for a posthumous pardon from Gov. JB Pritzker. The board rarely has considered posthumous cle