John Chase

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.

2 MEN KILLED IN CEMETERY SHOOTING

August 10, 2021 at 10:56 p.m.

Two places normally considered sanctuaries--a cemetery and a parish hall--were the sites of separate shootings before dawn Sunday that left two men dead and four men injured, one of them...

ANGRY CROWD ERUPTS AS CLARK SENTENCE UPHELD

August 11, 2021 at 12:08 a.m.

The Lenard Clark beating case left Judge Daniel Locallo's courtroom Thursday with an angry crowd gathering in the hallway and complaining that justice had been compromised by racial politics. After...

REHAB PLAN PUSHED FOR SMALL DRUG CASES

August 11, 2021 at 6:01 a.m.

Cook County court officials on Tuesday said a program under which small-time drug defendants can avoid the possibility of jail by agreeing to undergo 18 months of rehabilitation will be...

CASEWORKER CALLS MOM PATIENT

August 11, 2021 at 5:13 a.m.

A Department of Children and Family Services worker who took over as caseworker for the case involving Baby T testified Thursday that the natural mother's behavior was normal during numerous...

EYEGLASS GLAMOR: IT’S HOW THEY LOOK, NOT HOW THEY SEE

August 11, 2021 at 1:34 a.m.

Here's a curve: The man who slugged 66 home runs wears such big, clunky glasses off the field that you might think he would be lucky just drawing a bead...

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