Ellen Day appeared at death’s door during a debilitating battle with liver, breast and colon cancer. Or so DuPage County prosecutors thought. The 50-year-old Bloomingdale woman was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday for obstructing justice when she gave police false documents to clear her name in a theft investigation. She might have been a good candidate for probation, but a judge meted out the near-maximum prison term after prosecutors accused Day of lying about her terminal illness in an elaborate scam to glean their sympathy. “I almost don’t know where to begin,” DuPage Circuit Judge Michael Burke said...