Investigations – Page 53

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...

The Illinois Lottery's second-in-command, Jayme Odom, got her job through a Republican operative-turned-lobbyist, Nancy Kimme, seen here at left with Gov. Bruce Rauner and first lady Diana Rauner in 2014. Kimme later called Odom on behalf of the British firm seeking to manage the lottery.

Investigation details secretive contacts with lobbyist on $2 billion Illinois lottery contract

By Joe Mahr

June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

A top staffer for the Illinois Lottery failed to disclose her relationships and contact with...

Laura Shelton holds her daughter Lana on March 1, 2017, when the girl was 8 months old. Lana, who was not screened by the state for Krabbe disease at birth, died of the disease on Jan. 1, 2018.

Girl dies of Krabbe disease after Illinois delayed newborn screening program

By Patricia Callahan

June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

Another Illinois child has died of Krabbe disease, a condition that could have been treated...

Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios is immersed in a Shakman case alleging multiple examples of political influence in his employment and promotions in his public office.

Cook County assessor slow to adopt anti-patronage reforms – and taxpayers pay price

By Jason Grotto

June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios has never made any secret of his affinity for old-school politics that...

Traffic moves west through the intersection at U.S. 30 and Orchard Drive in Olympia Fields on Dec. 20, 2017. The crash rate for the wesbound approach tripled in the three years after red light cameras were installed, the biggest increase of any stretch of road the Tribune studied.

10 years after red light cameras came to suburbs, state hasn’t assessed whether they’ve improved safety

By Joe Mahr

June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

Since red light cameras were introduced in Chicago’s suburbs a decade ago, state and local...

Then-newly elected College of DuPage board Chairwoman Kathy Hamilton attends a board meeting April 30, 2015. Hamilton left the college's board of trustees for "personal reasons" just months after she became its chairwoman.

Strategist touted volunteer work for College of DuPage while chairwoman secretly paid his son’s tuition to Georgetown

By Christy Gutowski

June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

When former College of DuPage board Chairwoman Kathy Hamilton ordered the school to hire her...

A government watchdog group wants reforms in Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios' office.

Nonpartisan group calls for additional oversight of Cook County assessor’s office

By Jason Grotto

June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

A nonpartisan government watchdog group Monday announced it will push for reforms to the Cook...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump during a photo session of world leaders on the closing day of the 25th APEC Summit on Nov. 11, 2017 in Da Nang, Vietnam.

AP poll: Most Americans believe Trump did something illegal or unethical with Russia

By Associated Press

June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

Most Americans think Donald Trump did something illegal or at least unethical regarding ties between...

Allison Zayas was a top seller of the antipsychotic Seroquel for the drugmaker AstraZeneca. She filed a whistleblower lawsuit in 2010 against the company because, she said, they didn't take appropriate action when she reported there was evidence of a fatal drug interaction.

Whistleblower says she warned drugmaker of risks of taking antipsychotic Seroquel with methadone

By Sam Roe

June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m.

Few prescription drugs were as popular as the antipsychotic Seroquel. Psychiatrists trusted it, nursing homes...

Secretive appeals process quietly reducing punishment for cops after findings of misconduct

By Jennifer Smith Richards

June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m.

A secretive appeals system has been knocking down the punishments of Chicago police officers no...

<p>Jason Echols, right, statewide director for a senior Medicare program at AgeOptions, and Peg Tully, left, a health care fraud information specialist at AgeOptions, look for forms at the advocacy organization’s offices in Oak Park on Dec. 7, 2017.</p>

Illinois’ home health care industry rife with fraud, tainted by unscrupulous physicians

By Michael Berens

June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m.

His hands trembled at first. Then his vision blurred. Finally, unable to control a malignant...