CHICAGO (AP) -- Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is spending his time in federal prison teaching Civil War history and learning to play the guitar, while his attorneys work on an appeal, his wife said on Friday, the one-year anniversary of the beginning of his 14-year term for corruption....
Wife Says Blagojevich Teaching History In Prison
By CARYN ROUSSEAU, Associated Press
Fri, 03/15/2013 - 2:38pm
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