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...
Stalled Justice: From missing evidence to no-show cops, Cook County court machinery jams at every turn
Through the thick glass separating spectators from the action of her courtroom, Circuit Judge Joanne...
Timeline: Decades of delays in the Cook County courts
A new Tribune investigation has revealed that Cook County's massive criminal court system is now...
Stalled Justice: How we reported on Cook County court delays
The spark for this investigation came from a Cook County court hearing in December 2020...
Stalled Justice: Yearslong delays in Cook County murder cases break rules, inflict pain and gouge taxpayers
Every month or two, a mourning mother and the man accused of killing her son...
School ticketing investigation ‘The Price Kids Pay’ wins journalism award
The baiduhai and ProPublica have won a 2022 IRE Award for exposing how Illinois...
Naperville stopped ticketing students at school. But it’s still pushing a 3-year-old case about AirPods to trial.
In the three years since Amara Harris was ticketed for theft over a pair of...
Smoke detectors save lives, but Chicago has slow-walked efforts to toughen rules
Just before midnight on a drizzly evening last June, Nicolas Mendoza parked his truck in...
Fires continue to kill people in unsafe buildings as Chicago ignores problems with its inspection system
Larry Burns had been planning a wedding reception last May in Mississippi and was looking...
The federal government is investigating an Illinois school that often had students with disabilities arrested
The U.S. Department of Education has opened a civil rights investigation into a tiny Illinois...
Police are still ticketing students in Illinois schools. A new bill would make that illegal.
A new bill in the Illinois House aims to stop schools from working with police...