John Chase is deputy metro editor for local government and politics. He rejoined the Tribune in 2022 after having worked at the Better Government Association, where he was an editor on the 2021 Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Failures Before the Fires.” He worked at the Tribune from 1998 until 2016 covering Illinois and Chicago politics and government.
In a frightening echo of 1995's heat disaster, the hottest days in the Chicago area in four years claimed as many as 57 lives Friday and early Saturday, amid power...
In wrenching detail, a series of witnesses on Thursday gave a DuPage County coroner's jury the most explicit public account to date of how and why Marilyn Lemak allegedly drugged...
As police sifted through their evidence Friday and friends and neighbors sorted through their memories for clues to what had happened at the cranberry-red Victorian house in downtown Naperville, there...
As police sifted through their evidence Friday and friends and neighbors sorted through their memories for clues to what had happened at the cranberry-red Victorian house in downtown Naperville, there...
Inside the brick walls of one of the most exclusive clubs in Chicago, it was as quiet as it could be at 11 a.m. Wednesday. The loudest sounds came from...
These are the places where the Blizzard of '99 goes to die. Snow that first fell on roads, intersections and school parkways is being trucked to parks, empty lots and...
With three days to go in 1998, the wealthy owner of a northwest suburban manufacturing company had yet to pay a dime in taxes, and he wanted Schaumburg accountant Herb...
Rep. Donald Manzullo sat Sunday night at the bar of his brother's restaurant in New Millford, held up a tablet of guest checks, and, with tears in his eyes, recalled...
On the trail of a dead killer, Chicago police took shovels in hand on a windy Monday and dug up a glass marble, a flattened sauce pan and the memory...