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According to the city's Office of Inspector General, Chicago elevator inspectors failed to perform more than three-quarters of their required annual inspections last year.

Majority of required elevator inspections not done in Chicago last year

May 21, 2019 at 2:01 p.m.

Chicago elevator inspectors failed to complete more than three-quarters of their required annual inspections last year, resulting in about $772,040 in lost inspection fees, according to an audit released Wednesday...

Hammond police stop becomes video battle

May 22, 2019 at 5:03 p.m.

The traffic stop began as a routine seat belt violation. It would lead, however, to a cascade of actions that included Hammond police officers smashing a car window and then...

Incoming Archbishop Blase Cupich knocks on the front doors before the Rite of Reception ceremony at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago on Nov. 17, 2014.

Case offers insight into archbishop’s leadership

June 18, 2018 at 7:48 a.m.

When Bishop Blase Cupich arrived in the Spokane diocese, he faced nothing short of a financial disaster stemming from the clergy sex abuse scandal. A victims fund had been drained,...

Obamacare Sunshine Act sheds light on $3.5B paid to doctors

June 17, 2018 at 7:13 a.m.

U.S. doctors and teaching hospitals received nearly $3.5 billion from pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers over the last five months of 2013, according to a partial set of data...

Medical industry paid billions to doctors, hospitals last year, data show

June 17, 2018 at 7:08 a.m.

U.S. doctors and teaching hospitals received nearly $3.5 billion worth of payments and other financial ties from pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers over the last five months of 2013,...

Cook County probation department’s gun cases fall apart

May 12, 2019 at 10:47 p.m.

One by one, a series of weapons cases have fallen apart in Cook County criminal courts. In two cases, prosecutors dropped charges. In another two, a judge or a jury...

New archbishop praised for how he led in Spokane

June 17, 2018 at 7:55 a.m.

In this largely rural church between the Cascades and the Rocky Mountains, Roman Catholics say Chicago's next archbishop steered his own course — even when it meant risking offense or...

New archbishop brings ‘Francis factor’ to Chicago

June 17, 2018 at 8:34 a.m.

When he received the phone call 11 days ago, Bishop Blase Cupich of Spokane, Wash., was as surprised as anyone to learn he had been selected as Chicago's next archbishop....

Firefighters at the scene of the blaze in a courtyard apartment building.

After 4 kids die in fire, building owner cited for other properties

May 21, 2019 at 1:29 p.m.

The owner of a building where four children died in a fire Monday has been cited for failing to adequately maintain three other buildings he owns on the South Side....

Tenants ordered out of building where 4 kids died in fire

May 21, 2019 at 1:26 p.m.

A Cook County Circuit Court judge on Tuesday ordered that tenants be vacated from a South Side apartment building where four children died in a fire, while the owner made...

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