Investigations – Page 30

Dr. Ayoub Sayeg arrives at a court hearing at the Daley Center in the Loop on Aug. 19, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Illinois plastic surgeon with 8 patient deaths faces another license suspension

By Christy Gutowski

October 6, 2026 at 11:14 a.m.

The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs temporarily suspended Dr. Ayoub Sayeg’s medical license,...

Gov. JB Pritzker joined Mayor Lori Lightfoot, right, Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle, second from left, and public health experts in updating residents on March 12, 2020, in the early days of the pandemic. Illinois, Chicago and Cook County received $11 billion through the American Rescue Plan Act amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A Tribune-University of Chicago Mansueto Institute analysis revealed few efforts to identify potential waste and abuse of that money. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Illinois, Chicago, Cook County got $11B in pandemic aid but there were gaps in oversight and transparency

By Dan Petrella

September 13, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The Tribune and the University of Chicago's Mansueto Institute examined how Illinois, Chicago and Cook...

Weiss Memorial Hospital, in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood, was closed in August 2025 after federal regulators cut off Medicare funding over safety issues. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Illinois ignores rules and red flags as ‘servant leader’ runs up $100M state tab, then closes 2 hospitals

By Joe Mahr

August 30, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

West Suburban and Weiss Memorial's collapse illustrates what can go wrong in a state that...

President Donald Trump displays the Abbott Laboratories equipment used for a new rapid test for the novel coronavirus during the daily briefing on COVID-19 in the Rose Garden of the White House on March 30, 2020.

New rapid coronavirus test from Abbott is a ‘huge step forward,’ but still not enough to meet the need

By Hal Dardick

June 14, 2024 at 6:39 p.m.

The new rapid coronavirus test from a Chicago-area medical device company is "a game changer,"...

Gages Lake School is one of several school programs operated by the Special Education District of Lake County. It serves young students with behavioral disabilities.

A former aide for students with disabilities was charged with battery. He’s the second worker at Gages Lake to be arrested this school year.

By Jennifer Smith Richards

June 14, 2024 at 6:39 p.m.

This story is a collaboration between the Tribune and ProPublica Illinois. A Gages Lake School...

District 218 science teacher wins $10,000 teaching prize, uses money to buy 3D printer for her classroom

By Janice Neumann

June 14, 2024 at 6:39 p.m.

Sheri Caine recently won a first-place award from the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and...

An Illinois Department of Children and Family Services field office in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood is shown in 2019.

Pritzker names new DCFS watchdog; some child welfare advocates concerned

By David Jackson

June 14, 2024 at 6:39 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker has appointed Lester Bovia as interim inspector general of the Department of...

A 16-year-old girl, far right, walks outside her home in Royal, Arkansas, with her 6-year-old brother and her father last fall. The girl was 11 when she was treated at Millcreek Behavioral Health.

Police logs, children, families paint troubled portrait of Millcreek ‘misery mill’

By David Jackson

June 14, 2024 at 6:39 p.m.

This story is being co-published with ProPublica Illinois. Millcreek Behavioral Health in Fordyce, Arkansas, has...

An employee of Millcreek Behavioral Health walks last fall with two young residents on the facility's campus in Fordyce, Arkansas. Millcreek has emerged as a national hub for treating children with emotional and behavioral disorders.

Hurt instead of helped: Foster children victimized in out-of-state facilities where oversight is lacking

By David Jackson

June 14, 2024 at 6:39 p.m.

This story is a collaboration between the baiduhai and ProPublica Illinois. Across the country,...

A ManorCare Health Services facility in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, is shown in 2018.

Bill Conway’s billionaire father is bankrolling his state’s attorney bid. His fortune came from a firm that invested in weapons manufacturers and nursing homes accused of neglecting patients.

By Dan Hinkel

June 14, 2024 at 6:39 p.m.

Democrat Bill Conway's biggest advantage in the Cook County state's attorney race is also proving...

Marnie Jamison braids the hair of a 7-year-old girl in her care before school on Sept. 12, 2019. Jamison, of Lisle, has fostered more than 70 children and was recruited to a pilot program offering more specialized therapeutic foster care.

Therapeutic foster care

By Contributed Content

June 14, 2024 at 6:39 p.m.

Marnie Jamison, a veteran foster parent, is part of a state pilot program for "therapeutic...

A sign at the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation at the Thompson Center on Feb. 28, 2020.

Who’s profiting off the millions that Illinois’ marijuana business is bringing in? State officials are keeping that secret.

By Dan Hinkel

June 14, 2024 at 6:39 p.m.

Marijuana entrepreneurs are starting to rake in millions of dollars a month in Illinois as...

A six-flat owned by the Better Housing Foundation is shown in 2019. A work crew removed a back porch after city inspectors deemed it to be dangerous.

SEC launches probe into affordable housing group whose deteriorating South Side buildings were focus of Tribune investigation

By Joe Mahr

June 14, 2024 at 6:39 p.m.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an investigation of an upstart nonprofit that the...