Rezko owns vacant lot next to Obama’s home
When Sen. Barack Obama decided to buy a stately $1.65 million home last year on Chicago's South Side, Antoin "Tony" Rezko and his wife wasted no time. The same day...
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12 charged in home fraud
An attorney and self-styled financial adviser conned desperate homeowners into signing away the roofs over their heads with the promise he would help get them back on their feet, federal...
Inspector: Campaign work done on state job
A supporter of Gov. Rod Blagojevich who got a state job under questionable circumstances has been accused by investigators of raising campaign money for the governor on taxpayer time. The...
Rezko’s life a story of pizza and politics
Antoin "Tony" Rezko traveled in the entourage of boxing great Muhammad Ali, gave confidential advice to Gov. Rod Blagojevich and criss-crossed the globe to craft multimillion-dollar business deals. But the...
Bank clients beef up campaign war chest
Because of an editing error, only the beginning of this article appeared in some editions Tuesday. The article is reprinted below in its entirety. Many of the biggest donors to...
Clients beef up campaign war chest
Many of the biggest donors to Democratic state treasurer candidate Alexi Giannoulias also received millions of dollars in loans from his family's Broadway Bank--some making their campaign contributions within weeks...
Eugene Sawyer: From City Hall to bankruptcy
Eugene Sawyer's quiet career as a city alderman took an unexpected turn when the City Council voted him to be acting mayor, making him for 16 months a household name...
3 business partners later were convicted in smuggling case
About a decade after he left City Hall in 1989, former Mayor Eugene Sawyer got into the wholesale tobacco business. Three of his business partners later were convicted for their...
Apartment fire kills 6 children
(Erroneous information regarding the city's highest toll of children killed in a single fire as published has been corrected in the headline and in subsequent references in this text.) Without...
State closes firm in scam on mortgages
State regulators on Friday shut down an operation that they called a "mortgage rescue" scam that allegedly defrauded homeowners of their properties. Authorities charged that Mutual Trust Funding Corporation, Charles...