WHEATON – Nearly two decades after the nation watched O.J. Simpson struggle to put on the famous glove, Chicago TV viewers will get their first opportunity today to see a criminal defendant stand before a local courtroom judge.

Judge Robert Kleeman ruled Tuesday to allow one TV camera and one still camera in his DuPage County courtroom for the first live broadcast of legal proceedings in the Chicago area. A suburban Chicago woman is expected to enter a plea today in the stabbing deaths of her 7-year-old son and a 5-year-old girl she was babysitting.

Prosecutors say the woman, Elzbieta Plackowska, stabbed her son about 100 times and girl 50 times, at least partly out of anger at her husband.