Troubled Harvey police will be scrutinized by sheriff
In a suburb the Tribune found was arguably the area's most lawless, Harvey's City Council has defied the mayor and invited the sheriff to assess a Police Department long plagued...
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Towns let DUI drivers keep licenses — for a price
Robert Daly was an unlikely candidate to keep his driver's license. The Downers Grove man was charged with drunken driving in the west suburb in 2011 under a state law...
Chicago, south suburban Harvey battle over water bills
A legal battle between Chicago and one of its suburbs is turning increasingly heated, with the city accusing Harvey of "stealing" tens of millions of dollars worth of water while...
Repeat offender shows complex DUI challenges
Repeat drunken driver Leslie Thurow walked out of Cook County Jail last Thursday night with orders to stay off the roads and report to probation. But on Tuesday she was...
DUI plea deals sidestep mandatory license loss
Illinois' tough-sounding DUI statutes make one thing clear: Those arrested for drunken driving are almost guaranteed to lose their licenses for a time. But in suburbs across the Chicago area,...
Chicago wants Harvey’s water collections seized
On the edge of Chicago's West Pullman neighborhood, city pipes pump millions of gallons of water a day across the Cal-Sag Channel to the scandal-plagued suburb of Harvey. For years,...
School district hired man in sex offender treatment
A suburban man recently arrested on child pornography charges worked for years at a middle school even after he had been ordered to get sex offender treatment, a Tribune review...
Harvey mayor refuses to testify about possible corruption
A south suburban mayor who's long pitched himself as a reformer has refused to testify about alleged corruption in his town because the answers could be used by authorities against...
Mom loses custody case involving church with naked ritual
An appeals court has ruled that a father rightfully was given custody of his children because of their mother's role in a controversial church in which the minister held naked...
Harvey cop charged with domestic battery in Will County
A Harvey police officer with a history of allegations of abuse has been arrested in Will County and accused of domestic battery. Det. Jeffrey Crocker, 44, of Beecher, faces a...