Facing sentencing, man apologizes for terrorism plot to blow up Loop bar: 'Sometimes I laugh at my stupidity'

A Hillside man who attempted to detonate a 1,000-pound car bomb outside a crowded Loop bar in 2012 apologized Wednesday to his family, the court and the United States for what he called a stupid mistake when he was a naive teenager “just trying to make friends.”

"I thought it was too late to turn...