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A ManorCare Health Services facility in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, is shown in 2018.

Bill Conway’s billionaire father is bankrolling his state’s attorney bid. His fortune came from a firm that invested in weapons manufacturers and nursing homes accused of neglecting patients.

June 14, 2024 at 6:39 p.m.

Democrat Bill Conway's biggest advantage in the Cook County state's attorney race is also proving to be his largest political liability. The 41-year-old Chicago lawyer has been able to raise...

A sign at the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation at the Thompson Center on Feb. 28, 2020.

Who’s profiting off the millions that Illinois’ marijuana business is bringing in? State officials are keeping that secret.

June 14, 2024 at 6:39 p.m.

Marijuana entrepreneurs are starting to rake in millions of dollars a month in Illinois as customers line up to buy newly legal weed, but who's profiting from those sales remains...

Rick Heidner delivers a prepared speech in front of the Illinois Racing Board during a hearing in Villa Park on Oct. 15, 2019.

Video gambling operator Rick Heidner sues state Gaming Board over alleged data breach

June 14, 2024 at 6:40 p.m.

Embattled video gambling operator Rick Heidner is suing the Illinois Gaming Board, alleging an agency employee leaked sensitive information to the federal government. The lawsuit filed Tuesday contends that an...

Protesters raise their hands while marching Sept. 1, 2014, in support of Roshad McIntosh in Lawndale. McIntosh was killed by Chicago police in the neighborhood the previous week.

Chicago cop should be fired after video shows he lied about fatal shooting of 19-year-old, investigators say

June 14, 2024 at 6:40 p.m.

Chicago police disciplinary officials are calling for an officer to be fired, saying surveillance footage shows he lied under oath about the 2014 fatal shooting of a 19-year-old on the...

Antae Manierre, who is gay, runs Haute Diggity Dawgs hot dog stand in North Lawndale, shown Dec. 13, 2019.

Racial slurs, a stabbing and an attempted synagogue burning: Reported hate crimes rise in Chicago, particularly against Jews and LGBT people

June 14, 2024 at 6:40 p.m.

A transgender woman was walking in South Austin early one morning about a year ago when four people got out of a car, yelled that she's "not a real woman"...

Cresco Labs employee Nicholas Stankus counts out cash received for a medical cannabis sale on Dec. 30, 2019.

‘The beginning of a new age, the end of an antiquated viewpoint’: Long lines, celebrations mark first hours of recreational marijuana sales in Illinois

January 2, 2020 at 5:32 p.m.

Thousands celebrated a new year by waiting in long lines to be among the first to legally buy marijuana for recreational use in Illinois on the day the state lifted...

Newly sworn-in Chicago police officers at the department's graduation and promotion ceremony at Navy Pier on Sept. 4, 2019. A total of 238 cadets were sworn in as Chicago police officers.

‘Change cannot be expected overnight’: Chicago fails to meet 37 of 50 deadlines for court-ordered police reform. But it’s still early, monitor says.

June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

The city of Chicago failed to meet most of its deadlines and obligations for enacting court-ordered police reforms during the first months of the lengthy process of overhauling the Chicago...

Wheaton College students Caeden Hood, from left, Gabriel Emerson, Matt Swart, Daniel Allen and Jeremy Chong object to public speech limits in Millennium Park. Allen is not part of the suit challenging park rules.

Wheaton College student evangelist and a radio host testify in First Amendment case, saying city of Chicago keeps them from spreading their messages in Millennium Park

June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m.

A student evangelist and a local radio host testified in Chicago federal court Thursday that they should be allowed to carry their two very different messages to the busiest parts...

Retired Chicago police Detective Michael Kill, a former underling of disgraced ex-Cmdr. Jon Burge, appears at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago in 2015. Kill, who died last year, is one of the officers sued by Arnold Day.

Man cleared of killing after years in prison sues Chicago cops with ties to Jon Burge, alleging they beat him into confessing

November 5, 2019 at 3:50 p.m.

Chicago police detectives with ties to disgraced former Cmdr. Jon Burge beat a man into confessing to two separate 1991 slayings, a federal lawsuit alleged Tuesday. Arnold Day spent 26...

State Rep. Luis Arroyo leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago on Oct. 28, 2019.

Joseph Berrios’ son-in-law and a fired former Chicago cop emerge as key figures in federal probe of state Rep. Luis Arroyo

November 1, 2019 at 11:44 a.m.

State Rep. Luis Arroyo's foray into the shady world of sweepstakes machines is at the center of the federal bribery case alleging he agreed to pay off a state senator...

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