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...
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...
Michigan man charged after arranging to meet what he thought was an underage girl for sex, Lake County authorities say
A sting operation by the Criminal Investigations Division of the Lake County sheriff's office resulted...
Ethics board sends Lightfoot campaign complaints to watchdogs
The Chicago Board of Ethics decided Monday more thorough investigations needed to be done before...
Many 911 calls deserve an ‘immediate’ police response. But in thousands of cases, officers didn’t arrive for more than an hour.
The Sunday sun was an hour or so from rising over the lake as the...
Illinois failed to take action even though it knew 3M had been polluting the Mississippi River with forever chemicals for more than a decade
By the late 2000s, it was clear that forever chemicals were in the blood of...
The Price Kids Pay: School for children with disabilities calls police on its students every other day
On the last street before leaving Jacksonville, there's a dark brick one-story building that the...
State police investigating death at Westville Correctional Facility
On Thursday, detectives from the Indiana State Police Criminal Investigations Division at the Lowell Post...
Free virtual event: How student journalists can investigate police ticketing at high schools
Schools in Illinois are banned from using fines to discipline students. But in recent years,...
The Tylenol murders: Read the Tribune investigation
Both the series and the podcast start by recounting the chaotic 24-hour period on Sept....
Tragedy, then triumph: How Johnson & Johnson made sure Tylenol survived the Tylenol murders
Shortly after sunrise on Sept. 30, 1982, Dr. Edmund Donoghue walked into the Cook County...