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Niles Township High School District 219 board President Mark Sproat confers with board members Ruth Klint, center, and Linda Lampert during a board meeting Sept. 8. Last month the board put two top administrators on leave pending an unspecified investigation.

Schools made cuts while Niles administrators collected $450,000 in perks

June 14, 2024 at 6:49 p.m.

As a north suburban district grappled with cuts to staff and student programs in recent years, the school board showered two top administrators with nearly $450,000 worth of perks, a...

Chicago police conduct a roadside check for motorists in the 10000 block of South Halsted Street on March 6, 2015.

Berwyn police rack up citations with questionable DUI checkpoints

June 14, 2024 at 6:45 p.m.

On an unseasonably cool summer evening last year, Berwyn police officers stood at Ogden and East avenues eyeing cars as they crawled through a roadside check. The officers were working...

Chicago police DUI checkpoints still concentrated in minority neighborhoods

June 14, 2024 at 6:45 p.m.

Months after revealing the Chicago Police Department set up sobriety checkpoints almost exclusively in African-American and Latino communities, the Tribune has found that the pattern continues. Between March and August,...

The taxpayer-funded gut rehab and conversion of 1832 S. Fifth Ave. in Maywood into two dozen mostly two-bedroom units is 11 months behind schedule.

Costs, delays mounting on taxpayer-backed suburban rehab project

June 14, 2024 at 6:46 p.m.

The three-story red brick building on a hardscrabble corner in Maywood defies the image of federally subsidized housing. There are no cinder block walls or vinyl floors. Rather, construction crews...

Former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock abruptly resigned in March after reports that he may have overbilled the government for mileage reimbursement on a vehicle he had purchased with political contributions.

Ex-Rep. Aaron Schock spends heavily for legal help

August 18, 2019 at 8:02 p.m.

Former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock's legal woes have been lucrative for a handful of law firms that have collected more than $1 million from his campaign fund over the past...

$900,000 bail for Park Manor man accused in 2014 fatal shooting

May 22, 2019 at 8:20 p.m.

Joshua J. Ford fired a shot into the air one night last September as a warning to a trio of people passing through his South Side neighborhood that they were...

Prosecutors: Mistaken identity sparked South Side shooting

May 22, 2019 at 8:20 p.m.

A 21-year-old who prosecutors said opened fire on two men in the Wrightwood neighborhood in a case of mistaken identity was ordered held on $750,000 bail Saturday afternoon. Matthew Andrews...

Prosecutors: Woman charged with permitting sexual abuse of child

May 22, 2019 at 8:20 p.m.

A Chicago woman is accused of looking the other way as a 41-year-old man moved into her home and shared a bedroom with her 13-year-old daughter, whom he sexually abused,...

Dennis Hastert had multiple sources of income after leaving Congress

August 18, 2019 at 7:42 p.m.

Former House speaker Dennis Hastert was making $165,200 a year in 2007 when he resigned from Congress, and quickly parlayed his political experience into a much more lucrative career as...

Aaron Schock’s flight with donor detailed in affidavit

August 18, 2019 at 7:40 p.m.

Former congressman Aaron Schock took a flight from Washington to Peoria in 2014 aboard a private jet with a Peoria insurance executive and loyal donor, possibly in violation of House...

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