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Chicago Public Schools’ budgets spend $500 million district doesn’t have

May 25, 2019 at 12:59 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools on Monday unveiled school spending plans that rely on a half-billion dollars more than the district has on hand — an approach the head of the city's...

ComEd announces energy assistance plan in wake of state budget impasse

June 15, 2018 at 1:45 p.m.

The state's budget impasse has prompted its largest utility to launch a contingency plan to get money to thousands of people struggling to pay their electricity bills in northern Illinois....

Rauner’s plan to withhold low-income energy assistance money draws concern

August 18, 2019 at 7:48 p.m.

The governor's plan to withhold state money that helps poor residents pay their electric and gas bills was met with concern and resistance Thursday at a hearing in Chicago. Seniors,...

Byron Nuclear Generating Station on Wednesday, June 6, 2012, near Bryon, Ill. As Illinois grapples with a growing energy crisis, companies like Excelon want electricity users to pay about $2 more a month to help fund what the company says are several struggling nuclear plants.

Power Play: Energy legislation stalled, state’s electricity future up for grabs

June 16, 2018 at 5:01 p.m.

For months, Illinois has been locked in a struggle over the future of its power market — from the role nuclear energy will play on the electric grid to how...

A Google Street View vehicle drives Palo Alto, Calif., streets in 2010. The Internet search giant teamed up with the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund and used its Street View cars to scan for methane leaks in Chicago in the latter months of 2014.

Gas leaks mapped in Chicago neighborhoods; big source of climate pollution

August 18, 2019 at 7:44 p.m.

Two weeks after an investigation slammed Peoples Gas for mismanaging a multibillion-dollar program to replace aging pipes under Chicago streets, new online maps have detailed wasteful and environmentally damaging methane...

Northern Illinois University in DeKalb on Aug. 30, 2012. NIU's police department was widely criticized for how it handled accusations from a student that a campus police officer had sexually assaulted her in October 2011.

Illinois bill aims for local police to investigate college campus sexual assaults

August 18, 2019 at 7:37 p.m.

When state Rep. David Harris learned about Northern Illinois University campus police botching a sexual assault investigation, he believed he had to act. The NIU case was one of a...

Crews install a new, 18-inch valve medium pressure header main on the 5200 block of West Grace Street in Chicago on April 24, 2012.

Audit: Sweeping failures in Peoples Gas’ gas main replacement program

May 22, 2019 at 8:01 p.m.

A state regulatory agency released a damning report Wednesday that found Peoples Gas has mismanaged its multibillion-dollar program to replace aging pipes under Chicago streets, pointing to large delays and...

The prosecutor in the county where the University of Notre Dame, above, is located says victims of sexual assault at the school should report the crime to the county special victims unit rather than campus police.

Prosecutor has message for victims of sexual assault at Notre Dame

August 18, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.

The prosecutor on the University of Notre Dame's home turf has a message for victims of campus sexual attacks: Rather than go to university police, they should directly report sex...

Chief Judge Timothy Evans, shown in 2014, hired the Laner Muchin law firm to investigate accusations of illegal and questionable searches within Cook County's probation department.

Year after probation investigation ordered, no word on outcome

August 18, 2019 at 7:29 p.m.

Cook County's Chief Judge Timothy Evans expressed outrage last spring upon hearing that the probation department had for years quietly teamed up with the FBI and others to conduct questionable...

Philippe Loizon, shown in 2014, a deputy chief in Cook County's probation department, is at the center of an investigation into whether the office conducted illegal searches.

Cook County probation official interfered in probe, witness says

June 14, 2024 at 6:50 p.m.

A high-ranking boss at the center of an investigation into possible civil rights violations by Cook County's probation department allegedly interfered in the nearly yearlong inquiry, a key witness has...

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