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Officers face tax charges linked to jobs at strip clubs

August 22, 2021 at 2:17 p.m.

More than a dozen former or current law-enforcement officers were charged with filing false tax returns by hiding income they made while moonlighting as security guards for three strip clubs...

A big game

August 22, 2021 at 10:37 a.m.

Craggy men in khaki vests prowled the carpeted convention hall, escorted by women in leopard print blouses and snakeskin jackets. Videotaped rifle shots crackled from the 1,100 exhibit booths where...

Dancing around letter of law

August 22, 2021 at 5:49 p.m.

It is not easy to hold a liquor license in Illinois. Nightclub operators must provide fingerprint samples and financial records during lengthy police background checks. Liquor commissioners can deny licenses...

eBay `fire sale’ starts red-hot bidding wars

August 19, 2021 at 11:29 a.m.

Bidding has been fierce in the Great Chicago Fire Sale, the first-ever municipally sponsored eBay charity auction, which opened Dec. 2 and is scheduled to close Saturday. "We're all kind...

City’s public art legal battle nears settlement

August 19, 2021 at 11:58 a.m.

After waging a quixotic, years-long legal battle to reform the city's Public Art Program, attorney Scott Hodes finally seems willing to admit victory. Hodes had trained his legal and public...

Judge forces Pentagon to suspend anthrax shots for troops

August 19, 2021 at 1:34 p.m.

For the second time in less than a year, a federal judge in Washington blocked the Pentagon from forcing troops to take the anthrax vaccine, saying the vaccine was not...

`A death wish’

August 19, 2021 at 3:42 p.m.

Once he ran the streets like a dark prince -- bar-hopping with mob chieftains, betting as much as a million dollars a week and doling out bribes to fix murder...

New firm to handle Navy Pier art fair

August 19, 2021 at 10:18 a.m.

The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority has picked the owner of art fairs in Miami and New York to stage an international arts exposition at Chicago's Navy Pier in May,...

Strip-club owner jousts with IRS

August 19, 2021 at 4:13 a.m.

Suburban strip club owner Michael G. Wellek once said there was a simple reason he didn't file personal income tax returns for years: He wasn't making enough money. "It's been...

The muckraker

January 30, 2019 at 9:39 a.m.

His rented Impala paws the asphalt as the legendary investigative reporter takes a slow left off 47th Street and heads into the sunlight of Indiana Avenue. Seymour Hersh has come...

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