Investigations – Page 65

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...

New plan aims to protect Illinois pharmacy customers from dangerous drug interactions

By Ray Long

June 14, 2024 at 6:45 p.m.

Responding to a Tribune investigation that found drugstores frequently failed to warn customers about potentially...

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker addresses a joint session of the Legislature in the Assembly chambers during the Governor's state of the state speech at the state Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, in Madison, Wis.

Wisconsin Supreme Court orders John Doe documents in Gov. Walker case released

By Associated Press

June 14, 2024 at 6:45 p.m.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release of documents from John Doe investigations...

Montgomery police continue to investigate fatal shooting

By baiduhai

June 14, 2024 at 6:45 p.m.

The Montgomery Police Department is continuing to investigate the shooting death of an Aurora man...

Reuben Goodwin Sr. as he arrives to court on the 24th floor of the Daley Center. Friday, December 16, 2016.

Last of missing residents from shuttered group home is found

By Patricia Callahan

June 14, 2024 at 6:45 p.m.

The last of the residents who went missing when Illinois licensing officials shut down their...

City admits mistake in trying to fix previous error on red light tickets

By David Kidwell

June 14, 2024 at 6:46 p.m.

In its effort to clean up a mistake it made on 1.9 million red light...

A Chicago Department of Water Management crew installs a rebuilt fire hydrant on a new cast iron water main on 66th Street near Kedzie Avenue on Feb. 2, 2016.

Beryllium workers get new protections after decades of delay

By Sam Roe

June 14, 2024 at 6:46 p.m.

Ending decades of denial and inaction, the federal government on Friday issued a tough new...

Scratch-off lottery tickets, some with handmade signs advertising unpaid prizes, are shown at Mare's Mini Mart & Deli on Chicago's Northwest Side. A Tribune investigation found the Illinois Lottery collected hundreds of millions of dollars from selling tickets to its biggest-prize instant games in which it did not award all of the grand prizes.

Lottery’s scratch-off payouts got little state oversight

By Angie Leventis Lourgos

June 14, 2024 at 6:46 p.m.

The director of the Illinois Lottery was dumbfounded. In June 2013, Michael Jones had just...

Mark Winkeler needs 24-hour care and has lived his entire adult life at Murray Developmental Center. His mother, Rita, and others sued when the Quinn administration sought to close Murray and move residents into group homes. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Tribune watchdog: A troubled transition

By Michael J. Berens

July 2, 2026 at 2:32 p.m.

The Tribune's "Suffering in Secret" investigation uncovered a system where caregivers often failed to provide...

Disability Services CEO Reuben Goodwin Sr. arrives at the Daley Center on Dec 13, 2016, for a hearing related to a state request for an order compelling his company to turn over its remaining group home residents to state caseworkers.

2 residents from now-shuttered group homes found; 1 remains missing

By Patricia Callahan

June 14, 2024 at 6:46 p.m.

Two residents who went missing from now-shuttered group homes for adults with developmental disabilities have...