Illinois, Chicago, Cook County got $11B in pandemic aid but there were gaps in oversight and transparency
The Tribune and the University of Chicago's Mansueto Institute examined how Illinois, Chicago and Cook...
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Illinois ignores rules and red flags as ‘servant leader’ runs up $100M state tab, then closes 2 hospitals
West Suburban and Weiss Memorial's collapse illustrates what can go wrong in a state that...
Data centers near O’Hare win nearly $100M in local tax breaks, leaving suburban homeowners to cover the gap
Northwest suburban data centers had nearly $2 billion knocked off their taxable property values, an...
Biden taps Chicago attorney Edward Siskel as White House counsel
President Joe Biden named Chicago attorney Edward "Ed" Siskel White House counsel Tuesday. Siskel, who...
Stalled Justice: Lawsuit on boy’s 2011 death is long over, but Cook County still hasn’t tried his mom for murder
On a sweltering July evening 12 years ago, medics raced to a Midlothian apartment and...
Videos show longtime Tylenol murder suspect James Lewis discussing the crime with undercover agents
One month after the death of James Lewis, the sole suspect in the 1982 Chicago...
52 days on the road: A migrant family’s desperate journey to Chicago
Esperanza Beatriz Mendez didn't get to say goodbye to her mother before leaving her home...
Bolingbrook man kills himself after wife fatally shot in an apparent accident while he was cleaning weapon, police say
A Bolingbrook couple died Saturday when a man killed himself after his wife was fatally...
James Lewis, sole suspect in the 1982 Tylenol murders, has died
James Lewis, the lone suspect in the 1982 Tylenol murders, was found dead Sunday at...
As Cook County courts fail to address delays that erode justice, a neighboring system shows reform is possible
When a defendant appearing in court has been jailed for a lengthy period, a color-coded...
Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough seeks end to historic anti-patronage case despite charges that she ‘stonewalls’
For more than a decade as a Cook County officeholder, Democratic stalwart Karen Yarbrough has...
Bill to stop student ticketing suffers setback, delaying action to protect families from costly fines
Top Illinois officials agreed last year that police shouldn't ticket students for minor misbehavior at...
Chicago police log 11,000 complaints since consent decree went into effect, as monitor cites ‘real concerns’ about effort to analyze use-of-force issues
In the 4 1/2 years since the city entered into a federal consent decree, the...