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Naperville train shooting a ‘highly unusual’ incident: Amtrak official

May 16, 2019 at 6:07 a.m.

The shooting of an Amtrak conductor at the downtown Naperville train station this week is an example of an incident that can't be predicted, a Naperville official said Wednesday while...

Scratch lottery games in the Illinois Lottery.

Illinois Lottery director questions privatization model

May 22, 2019 at 11:24 p.m.

Seven years after Illinois heralded privatization as the cure for lagging lottery sales, the state's latest lottery director now says he's not sure the model works. The private firm hired...

Hinsdale police officers investigate the scene where a 50-year-old woman was found dead in a home in the 700 block of Town Place.

Hinsdale homicide victim was mother and actress who battled leukemia

May 8, 2019 at 3:47 p.m.

A woman found dead Thursday inside her Hinsdale home — the upscale suburb's first homicide that authorities could recall — was remembered as a devoted mother and a cancer survivor...

Stuffed animals and Lisa Stebic's missing person flyer are posted at the gazebo in Stebic's neighborhood on Red Star Drive in Plainfieldon Dec. 26, 2007.

After 10 years, Lisa Stebic’s family ‘losing hope’ her case will be solved

June 5, 2018 at 12:59 a.m.

Melanie Greenberg sat at her dining room table on a recent afternoon, a couple of dozen old newspapers arrayed in a loose pile before her. The headlines trumpeted the latest...

Pastor Alfonzo Singletary, second from right, enters a home along with other family members on Jan. 3, 2017, where Trevon Johnson was shot and killed by a DuPage County sheriff's deputy a day earlier.

DuPage sheriff who fatally shot teen won’t face charges: prosecutor

June 5, 2018 at 3:55 a.m.

No charges will be filed against a DuPage County sheriff's deputy who fatally shot a 17-year-old boy near Villa Park after responding to calls that the teen was threatening family...

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Public money goes to private lottery firm’s secretive advisory board

June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m.

Taxpayers were told not to worry when Illinois became the first state in the nation to hire a private firm to manage a state lottery. The state had shut down...

Scratch-off lottery tickets, some with handmade signs advertising unpaid prizes, are shown at Mare's Mini Mart & Deli on Chicago's Northwest Side. A Tribune investigation found the Illinois Lottery collected hundreds of millions of dollars from selling tickets to its biggest-prize instant games in which it did not award all of the grand prizes.

Taxpayers pay millions in bonuses to lottery firm’s staff despite poor performance

June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m.

Illinois taxpayers have funded about $2 million in "retention" bonuses for employees of a private firm managing the lottery despite the firm performing so poorly Illinois is working to replace...

Illinois Lottery’s private manager faces 2nd lawsuit alleging fraud

May 22, 2019 at 11:14 p.m.

A second lawsuit has been filed accusing the Illinois Lottery's private manager of defrauding players after a Tribune investigation found the lottery did not award many of the biggest prizes...

A sign in front of Sharon Bychowski's home, left, and near Drew Peterson's home, right, in Bolingbrook announces a fundraiser to support a continued search for Stacy Peterson.

Drew Peterson was ‘threat’ to Illinois prison system, agency wrote

May 22, 2019 at 11:10 p.m.

Within months of Drew Peterson's conviction for trying to have someone kill the prosecutor who put him behind bars, state prison officials were working to off-load the notorious ex-cop to...

Nadine and Joe Vicich stand with their dog, Cody, outside their home, which was damaged by a tree during a tornado touchdown in Ottawa, Ill., on Feb.28, 2017.

2nd person dies from LaSalle Co. tornado; 6 twisters confirmed in northern Illinois

May 22, 2019 at 11:08 p.m.

A second person has died as a result of injuries suffered during tornado-producing storms that struck LaSalle County on Tuesday, officials said Thursday morning. David A. Johnson, 31, of Ottawa,...

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