Part 3: Politics snarl O’Hare
The parochial and petty politics that have turned O'Hare International Airport into a treasure-trove for concessionaires and contractors also are at the heart of why the transportation hub is a...
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RYAN ASKS U.S. TO HELP REVOKE FRAUDULENT LICENSES
Responding to the latest revelations in the state's bribes-for-licenses scandal, Gov. George Ryan on Friday asked the federal government to help revoke the driving privileges of truckers throughout the country...
9 states alerted on truckers
Indicating the growing reach of the secretary of state licensing scandal, authorities said Thursday that they are warning officials across the country that 175 truck drivers who now live out...
State quietly retested truckers
When then-Secretary of State George Ryan ran for governor in 1998, he repeatedly asserted that he had no evidence of wrongdoing at a Chicago-area driver's licensing facility that had become...
’95 Ryan shakeup linked to Bauer
In 1995, then-Secretary of State George Ryan disbanded his inspector general's office after top aides told him that investigators had done their job so well that employee corruption was under...
TO SERVE AND PROTECT
Around friends and superiors, Dean Bauer was known as an affable, helpful and unassuming guy, relaxed and secure in his status as a hometown pal of George Ryan. But to...
WATCHDOGS TO KEEP EYE ON CHICAGO CONTRACTS
Mayor Richard Daley's top aide on Friday announced new oversight of big-money contracts as part of a move to shore up troubled city purchasing procedures. The action came four days...
License probe turns to driver facility leases
In yet another expansion of the criminal investigation of the Illinois secretary of state's office under George Ryan, a state official said Friday that a federal grand jury had subpoenaed...
EX-STAFFER TIES TICKETS TO LICENSES
A former employee of an Illinois driver's licensing facility charged Monday that her supervisors pressured her to give licenses to unqualified truck drivers in exchange for purchases of campaign fundraising...
Ryan pal says he took money bag for safety
A former top aide to then-Secretary of State George Ryan acknowledged Thursday that he took a briefcase full of cash and campaign fundraising tickets from the office of an employee...