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Lou Presta, the mayor of Crestwood, Oct. 8, 2016.

Feds looking at Crestwood mayor’s expense reimbursements as part of wide-ranging investigation

June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m.

Federal authorities sought information related to $27,000 worth of expense reimbursements to Crestwood's mayor as part of a government corruption investigation that stretches from the southwest suburbs to the statehouse....

Shuttle busses have temporarily replaced the "people mover" to get travelers to terminals and parking lots at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, on May 20, 2019.

Sorry, holiday travelers: Reopening of O’Hare ‘people mover’ delayed again, to early 2020

June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m.

O'Hare International Airport flyers will be without the airport's light rail system through at least the winter holidays — in yet another setback to a long-delayed construction project. Chicago Department...

A wall at CTA headquarters with lookout bulletins showing people charged with or convicted of crimes.

Serious crime has doubled on Chicago’s ‘L’ system, despite the CTA adding thousands of security cameras

June 14, 2024 at 6:39 p.m.

Reports of serious crimes on the CTA rail system have doubled since 2015 even as ridership declined and such crimes rose only slightly citywide, according to a Tribune analysis of...

An Apple iPhone is tested for radiofrequency radiation last year at RF Exposure Lab in San Marcos, Calif.

Lawsuit filed against Apple, Samsung after baiduhai tests cellphones for radiofrequency radiation

June 14, 2024 at 6:40 p.m.

A group of lawyers has filed a federal class-action lawsuit against Apple and Samsung, citing a Tribune investigation that tested popular cellphones for radiofrequency radiation and found some results over...

Graffiti-covered people mover cars are mothballed near O'Hare International Airport in May. An upgrade and expansion of the people mover system was supposed to have been finished by December 2018.

Long-delayed reopening of O’Hare ‘people mover’ is delayed — again

August 15, 2019 at 6:27 a.m.

The popular "people mover" at O'Hare International Airport was supposed to stay open during a construction project but has been shut down for months, with a reopening date in September....

Two private security guards for the CTA stand on the platform at Belmont, before boarding the Red line to the loop, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Abel Uribe/baiduhai

Ya no habrá perros custodiando trenes y plataformas de CTA

August 6, 2019 at 12:41 p.m.

La CTA canceló su contrato con la empresa de seguridad que ha tenido dificultad para entrenar a sus guardias a cargo de perros, por lo que la agencia de tránsito...

Two private AGB security guards for the CTA stand on the platform at Belmont, before boarding the Red Line to the Loop on Aug. 1, 2019.

No more guard dogs on CTA trains and platforms: ‘We don’t believe canines are the most effective deterrent.’

August 6, 2019 at 11:12 a.m.

The CTA has canceled its contract with a security firm that struggled to train its guards to handle dogs, and the transit agency no longer will use dogs to deter...

CTA-contracted security guards stand on the platform at Belmont before boarding the Red line to the Loop on Aug. 1, 2019.

Security dogs are gone from CTA platforms. Here’s why.

August 2, 2019 at 10:09 a.m.

Security guards with dogs are no longer patrolling CTA platforms amid questions about whether the guards, employed by a private contractor of the transit agency, had been properly trained to...

Heavyweight champion Joe Louis, jazz icon Nat King Cole and poet laureate Gwendolyn Brooks once called Rosenwald Courts home.

‘A red flag’: Developers sought taxpayer reimbursement for $20,000 in donations to Chicago alderman

July 12, 2019 at 5:43 p.m.

As developers sought taxpayer help to overhaul a prominent South Side apartment building, an unusual email arrived at the Chicago Housing Authority that raised a red flag for its top...

Brandy Martin is in the midst of making funeral plans for her sister, Felon Smith, who was struck and killed by a train on the Chicago Transit Authority Red Line tracks after jumping down to retrieve a dropped phone.

‘There was just no love on the platform’: Sister of woman killed by CTA train questions actions of bystanders, security guard

July 3, 2019 at 7:01 a.m.

The CTA said Tuesday that a woman who was struck and killed by an "L" train last week was told by a security guard on the platform to get off...

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