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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.

Lawsuit accuses Illinois Lottery manager of fraud in instant games

June 6, 2018 at 1:15 a.m.

Three lottery players and a downstate bar have accused the Illinois Lottery's private manager of defrauding scratch-off players and retailers after a Tribune investigation found the lottery did not award...

On YouTube, Heather Mack says she alone killed mom in Bali, trapped boyfriend into cover-up

May 22, 2019 at 11:02 p.m.

Heather Mack was convicted of helping murder her mother, whose body was discovered stuffed in a suitcase while on vacation in Bali in 2014, but now the imprisoned Chicago-area woman...

Harvey comptroller accuses Chicago of using ‘alternative facts’ in water dispute

June 6, 2018 at 4:27 a.m.

A Harvey city official on Friday denied that the suburb improperly diverted water funds it owes Chicago to instead pay for department store purchases, credit card debt and contribute to...

Harvey diverted water money it owes Chicago to payroll, college fund: allegations

June 6, 2018 at 5:21 a.m.

A struggling south suburb was supposed to use a special pot of money to pay off millions in past due water bills to Chicago, but court filings allege some of...

Northwestern's Jordan Hankins and Maryland's Brene Moseley go for a loose ball during a game on March 5, 2016. Hankins was found dead in her room on campus Monday, Jan. 9, 2017; her death was later determined to have been a suicide by the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.

Northwestern offers condolences, resources after women’s basketball player’s suicide

June 6, 2018 at 9:35 a.m.

Northwestern University offered condolences, support and resources to students and staff Tuesday, one day after a women's basketball player was found dead in her room on campus. Jordan Hankins, 19,...

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.

Cop on leave after shooting death of DuPage teen; 911 calls released

June 6, 2018 at 11:11 a.m.

A DuPage County sheriff's deputy who fatally shot a 17-year-old boy while responding to a call of domestic violence Sunday near Villa Park has been placed on paid administrative leave,...

DuPage deputy involved in fatal shooting placed on leave; 911 recordings released

May 22, 2019 at 10:54 p.m.

A DuPage County sheriff's deputy involved in a shooting Sunday night near Villa Park that killed a 17-year-old has been place on paid administrative leave, the sheriff's office said Wednesday...

Lottery’s scratch-off payouts got little state oversight

June 14, 2024 at 6:46 p.m.

The director of the Illinois Lottery was dumbfounded. In June 2013, Michael Jones had just learned the firm hired to manage the lottery wanted to stop selling a scratch-off he...

State lawmakers call for investigation into lottery after Tribune report

May 22, 2019 at 10:50 p.m.

State lawmakers from both political parties are calling for an investigation of how the Illinois Lottery managed scratch-off games in response to a Tribune report showing the lottery didn't award...

Jim Carter, 41, questioned why many of the large grand prizes for scratch-off games were not awarded during Northstar Lottery Group's management of the Illinois Lottery. "There has to be accountability for that," the veteran lottery player said.

Illinois Lottery’s biggest scratch-offs didn’t award 40% of grand prizes, Tribune finds

June 8, 2018 at 6:01 p.m.

It was called The Good Life and offered the biggest grand prize of any instant game the Illinois Lottery had ever produced. Two lucky winners could scratch their way to...

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