Metra is weighing whether to return some of its passes to zone-based pricing in 2023, which would mark an end to promotional flat-rate daily and monthly passes recently tested by the agency.

The new monthly pass prices, part of a 2023 budget proposal unveiled at a board meeting Wednesday, would be lower than pre-pandemic. But for many riders, both the proposed monthly and daily pass prices would be an increase over the current flat-rate pilot passes.

Federal prosecutors Wednesday asked a judge to give a 19-month prison sentence to former Teamsters boss John T. Coli Sr., who pleaded guilty in an extortion case but then cooperated against former state Sen. Thomas Cullerton.

One of the legal system’s goals should be finding ways to reintegrate people back into society after they have completed their sentences, says Patrick O’Brien, who currently works as a criminal defense attorney.

Previously, O’Brien was a judge in Cook County Circuit Court from 2006 to 2015. He also worked as an assistant Cook County state’s attorney and as an attorney in the Illinois Attorney General’s Office.

A new complaint accuses Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau of improperly spending money from his mayoral campaign fund on his congressional bid.

Pekau bested five other candidates June 28 to win the Republican nomination to face incumbent Democratic 6th District Rep. Sean Casten of Downers Grove in the Nov. 8 midterm election.