Tinley Parks sets ‘aggressive’ timetable for water meter review
Tinley Park officials expect it will take a month to hire an outside firm to review the town's troubled water meter program as more complaints emerge about meters that the...
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Tinley Park vows to review overbilling water meters after Tribune probe
Tinley Park's elected officials vowed to investigate its electronic water meters — and the village's past praise of them — following a Tribune investigation exposing chronic overbilling and the village's...
Suburb’s smart water meters regularly overcharge residents
One of Chicago's largest suburbs uses a type of water meter that it knows has regularly overcharged residents — sometimes by hundreds of dollars a bill — while failing to...
Ex-top cop in Countryside gets 27-month prison term for fraud
The onetime head of the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police was sentenced Friday to more than two years in prison for misusing more than $200,000 in donations and grants...
Ex-girlfriend alleges discrimination in lawsuit against Harvey mayor
Days after being re-elected, the mayor of a long-troubled suburb was sued by one of his former top aides who claimed the mayor allowed others to berate and threaten her...
Fire destroys building Harvey mayor candidate was using as HQ
A fire authorities said was suspicious destroyed a building early Friday where a Harvey mayoral candidate housed his campaign. The fire happened a day after a report was filed that...
Riders ‘hate it’: Metra’s least-reliable train on its worst-performing line
Penny Marchiel, of Aurora, doesn't need evidence beyond her own experience to believe that her train ride home has been Metra's worst of the worst. "Absolutely. I hate it," Marchiel...
Activists push for ending automatic 30-day driving ban for DUI arrestees
In the often caustic debate over how to punish drunken drivers, both sides are pushing through a concept to eliminate a core punishment: so-called "hard time" of a license suspension....
State will press cops to avoid DUI paperwork errors
The secretary of state's office is stepping up reminders to police to mail in DUI paperwork after a Tribune investigation that found bureaucratic errors regularly helped drunken drivers avoid mandatory...
DUI paperwork mistakes allow thousands of drivers back on Illinois roads
Bureaucratic mix-ups have let thousands of drunken drivers avoid mandatory license suspensions and stay on the roads, a Tribune investigation has found. A Tribune review of state data found case...