Investigations – Page 68

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...

Misericordia resident Paul P. measures ground coffee at the center's coffee packaging room.

Misericordia Home

By baiduhai

June 14, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

The Misericordia Heart of Mercy campus, a fixture in the West Rogers Park neighborhood for...

Deron Hardge, 28, walks through the kitchen of his group home on the West Side of Chicago. When Hardge suffered a medical crisis at a group home in Harvey, where he was placed previously, testing later showed he barely had any of his anti-seizure medicine in his system when he arrived at the hospital.

Judge sides with state against embattled group home operator facing shutdown

By Patricia Callahan

June 14, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

A Cook County judge Monday refused to halt a state shutdown of a troubled network...

Tara Wandick talks about her son, Deron Hardge, 28, during a visit at his group home on Oct. 13, 2016, in Chicago. Wandick moved Hardge there after he suffered a serious medical crisis at his previous home in Harvey because of what she believes was neglect.

Group home provider’s license is pulled over ‘imminent risk’ to residents

By Michael Berens

June 14, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

The Illinois Department of Human Services has revoked the license of a group home provider...

Trump will not pursue Clinton investigations, campaign manager says

By Washington Post

June 14, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

President-elect Donald Trump "doesn't wish to pursue" more investigations into Hillary Clinton's email practices, a...

JoAnna Mullis sits next to the grave of her mother, Tina Marie Douglas, who was fatally struck in traffic after fleeing her Lockport group home in 2013. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Tribune watchdog: Suffering in secret

By Michael J. Berens

July 2, 2026 at 1:44 p.m.

The Douglas investigation is one of hundreds in which self-policing played a role in determining...

Barbara Chyette holds up a picture of her late brother, Loren Braun, a group home resident who choked to death during a supervised outing. (John J. Kim / baiduhai)

Tribune watchdog: Suffering in secret

By Michael J. Berens

July 2, 2026 at 1:47 p.m.

The house had no address; the dead man had no name. Illinois officials blacked out...

Flawed investigations fail victims of abuse, neglect in group homes

By Patricia Callahan

June 14, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

On her last night at a Lockport group home, Tina Marie Douglas tossed her few...

Sign indicating the presence of a red light camera.

Lawsuit challenges Chicago’s red light camera ordinance

By David Kidwell

June 14, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

A move by Mayor Rahm Emanuel to allow for the rehearing of as many as...

The only thing on our minds

By Scott Stantis

June 14, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

The endless election, Governor Bruce Rauner battling Speaker Mike Madigan, FBI investigations, basket of deplorables,...

Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington last May.

House Republicans are already preparing for ‘years’ of investigations of Clinton

By Washington Post

June 14, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

Jason Chaffetz, the Utah congressman wrapping up his first term atop the powerful House Oversight...