CHARGES OF TORTURE BY COPS PROBED
Chicago police are investigating published allegations that detectives shocked three teenage boys with an electrical device last year. The three were among a group of youths questioned following the slaying...
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CITY KICKING IN LOAN TO WIN SOCCER GROUP
When Chicago officials wooed the U.S. Soccer Federation last year to move its headquarters to Chicago, the sports group dangled the possibility it could bring the 1994 World Cup soccer...
SUIT SEEKS TO LET DISABLED STUDENTS JOIN MAINSTREAM
A federal class-action lawsuit accusing the city and state education boards of excluding disabled children from neighborhood schools reflects a growing national trend to ''mainstream'' special-education children. The suit mirrors...
JAGIELSKI LINKED TO A 2ND LAND DEAL INVOLVING D`ARCO FAMILY
A judicial candidate who ran the city`s election board borrowed $550,000 along with organized crime figure John D`Arco Sr. to develop four former city- owned lots into the sites of...
TALE OF BEST INTENTIONS GOES SOUR
Friends of Dorothy Rivers describe her as a social missionary with a taste for fancy clothes. Once a fixture on the list of the city`s 10 best-dressed black women, the...
DIFFICULT PATH TO JUSTICE IN COP BRUTALITY CASES
The number of Chicago and suburban police officers disciplined by their departments for brutality has grown dramatically in recent years, but the number convicted of the charge in criminal courts...
MEMOS AN ART FORM AT CITY HALL
When he left work on Friday evenings, former city Department of Transportation Commissioner John LaPlante usually carried home with him a thick sheaf of memos warning that the city was...
BUNGLING, BUCK-PASSING LEAD TO DISASTER
On Oct. 10, 1991, city engineer Dennis Sadowski was scheduled to make a final inspection of the new wooden pilings beside the Kinzie Street bridge. But Sadowski never did it....
CITY SHUTS DUMP AFTER 9-YEAR FIGHT
Chicago officials Tuesday shut down a Southeast Side landfill that they called ''an environmental fiasco,'' ending a nine-year legal battle that has twice gone to the U.S. Supreme Court. The...
EX-BANK CHIEF WELLS TAKES THE FAST LANE FROM FAME TO INDICTMENT
In a lifetime of wheeling and dealing, former Cosmopolitan National Bank chairman James Wells never encountered a deal he didn`t like-even a bad one, according to those who knew him....