WHO WAS FIRED? CITY HALL SHRUGS
Nearly 1,000 city workers were fired in November and December, but officials in Mayor Richard Daley`s administration were at a loss Wednesday to say who they were, where they worked...
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10-YEAR-OLD CHICAGO POLICE BRUTALITY CASE DIVIDING THE RANKS
Some Chicago police officers were outraged when Supt. LeRoy Martin decided in November to fire a top commander over allegations of brutality. Others thought it was outrageous that Martin took...
ROAD BUILDER IS INVESTIGATED BY THE FBI
The FBI is investigating one of the state`s biggest road building and construction firms for possible fraud on two Chicago-area highway repair projects, state officials said Wednesday. Federal agents are...
COSMOPOLITAN EXEC PAID FOR ARSON, U.S. CHARGES
Former Cosmopolitan National Bank Chairman James E. Wells allegedly paid an arsonist at least $7,000 to torch a warehouse that he owned, and two associates of the banker have cooperated...
`ILLEGAL` DUMP MADE $600,000, CITY SAYS
Operators of a controversial West Side site dumped more than 340,000 tons of construction debris on a series of vacant city lots and received at least $600,000 in fees for...
INVISIBLE SOCIETY SCRAPES BY ON LOWER WACKER
The other afternoon, Jerry Ferncl ventured up from the catacomb of streets that wind through underground Chicago and blinked at the sunlight and swank shops of Michigan Avenue. Ferncl-craggy and...
MIKE TYSON TALKING TURKEY FOR THE NEEDY
Boxing promoter Don King`s hair, which usually rises from his head like an electrocuted Brillo pad, was crumpled and matted by the Chicago wind. Sitting beside him in the Hektoen...
DUMP LINKED TO COSMOPOLITAN BANK
One morning in the early summer of 1990, Frenchelle Barnett looked out her front window and saw a green truck dump a load of crushed cement on the lot across...
SUIT CHARGES ARSONIST WITH REALTY TAX FRAUD
Convicted arsonist Louis Wolf owns so much real estate in Chicago that city attorneys once dubbed him ''the de facto head of the Department of Planning.'' But in a lawsuit...
MAGISTRATE GIVES U.S. GO-AHEAD TO PRESS COSMOPOLITAN CHARGE
When James E. Wells took over Cosmopolitan National Bank five years ago, the rough-hewn trucking mogul bragged to friends that he could transform anyone into a banker simply by putting...