Monitor lays down law on hiring
A court-appointed monitor ordered to review City Hall personnel practices moved Tuesday to take control of the city's hiring and promotions, at least for the near future. The monitor, attorney...
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City fights quiz of Daley for lawsuit
City attorneys are fighting a rare judicial order calling for Mayor Richard Daley's deposition in an ongoing lawsuit and will consider appealing to the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals...
City fights quiz of Daley
City attorneys are fighting a rare judicial order calling for Mayor Richard Daley's deposition in an ongoing lawsuit and will consider appealing to the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals...
Millennium Park kickbacks charged
A former Chicago Park District official accepted cash, vacations to ski resorts, a pricey bicycle and even a manicure for steering millions of dollars in work at Millennium Park to...
City gets a Hall monitor
Suggesting that he felt duped by City Hall's past claims to have reined in patronage hiring, a federal judge Tuesday appointed a monitor with broad powers to oversee the city's...
Witness list in probe of city hiring leaked
The defense attorney for Mayor Richard Daley's longtime patronage chief improperly gave the city a confidential list with the names of key government witnesses in the federal probe of City...
Plan aims to recover officials’ bribes
Chicago would seek to recover bribes under an ordinance introduced Wednesday in response to corruption in the city's Hired Truck Program. The Law Department would file claims against wrongdoers to...
Sense of gloom fills the ranks
Like the scary rumbles that shake the floor and buckle the pavement following an earthquake, the aftershocks of the continuing federal investigation of massive fraud in city hiring have left...
Shakman seeks contempt ruling against city officials
Prompted by a criminal probe of City Hall hiring, the man who for years has fought to free city jobs from politics asked Tuesday that Mayor Richard Daley's administration be...
Uh, that’s `ovation,’ not `probation’
With U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald dialing up the heat in his investigation of City Hall corruption, reporters figured it was a Freudian slip last week by Mayor Richard Daley when...