Eavesdropping Charges

Felony charges? Guess it wasn't Cook County:

• Two DeKalb brothers were indicted Monday on felony and misdemeanor eavesdropping charges for reportedly recording police officers on a November traffic stop.
  
  [...] While a DeKalb police officer was talking to the driver of the car, a second officer advised him that Fanon Parteet appeared to be recording him using a camera-equipped cell phone. When asked, Fanon Parteet said he was only recording people inside the car, police said. But when he played back the video, the arresting officer said he saw and heard himself on the recording.
  
  In Illinois, it is illegal to make a recording of an oral conversation without the consent of all parties. There are exceptions, including uniformed police officers using recording devices like squad car-mounted cameras in the course of their duties.

This law is supposed to cover convicted gangbangers who record traffic stops and then turn the tape over to WGN. As WGN aired an illegally recorded conversation, we wonder if they might be civilly liable for damages.