Investigations – Page 51

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...

Brain-damaging lead found in tap water in hundreds of homes tested across Chicago, results show

By Cecilia Reyes

June 14, 2024 at 6:41 p.m.

Amid renewed national attention to the dangers of lead poisoning, hundreds of Chicagoans have taken...

Brain-damaging lead found in tap water in hundreds of homes tested across Chicago, results show

By Cecilia Reyes

June 14, 2024 at 6:41 p.m.

Amid renewed national attention to the dangers of lead poisoning, hundreds of Chicagoans have taken...

An apartment building formerly owned by the Kushner Companies in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens on March 19, 2018. The Kushner Cos. routinely filed false paperwork with New York City declaring it had zero rent-regulated tenants in dozens of buildings it owned, including this one, when it actually had many of them.

New York City investigating more than a dozen Kushner buildings

By Associated Press

June 14, 2024 at 6:41 p.m.

New York City's buildings regulator launched investigations at more than a dozen Kushner Cos. properties...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a federal investigation into Wells Fargo has broadened beyond its retail banking unit, to include its wealth-management division.

Fed investigation into Wells Fargo broadens: report

By Associated Press

June 14, 2024 at 6:41 p.m.

A federal investigation into Wells Fargo has broadened to include its wealth-management division, according to...

Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios faces questioning by the Cook County Board on July 18, 2017, about the fairness of property assessments.

Flawed assessments under Assessor Berrios caused $2 billion shift in Chicago property taxes, study finds

By Jason Grotto

June 14, 2024 at 6:41 p.m.

In the first effort to measure the cost of Cook County’s error-ridden assessment system under...

Read: University of Chicago study on tax assessments from 2011 to 2015

By baiduhai

June 14, 2024 at 6:41 p.m.

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