Investigations – Page 70

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...

Breakdown of the 14 no gun shootings

By baiduhai

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

Martin O'Malley, left, the bagman in the red light camera scandal, leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse on Sept. 12, 2016, after being sentenced to six months in prison. At right is O'Malley's attorney, Mike Gillespie.

Bagman in red light cameras scandal given 6 months in prison

By David Kidwell

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

The admitted bagman who funneled more than half a million dollars in bribes to the...

Laura Rios is seen at her home in Chicago on June 21, 2016. She is the mother of Pedro Rios, who was fatally shot at age 14 by Chicago police after a foot chase on July 4, 2014.

Third of police shootings started with foot chases, Tribune analysis finds

By Angela Caputo

June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m.

Levail Smith had just cracked open a can of beer outside a Rogers Park laundromat...

City insider given 10 years in prison for red light cameras scandal

By David Kidwell

June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m.

John Bills, the insider convicted in one of the most brazen City Hall corruption cases...

John Bills, right, walks with his wife, Jackie Bills, center, and his attorney Nishay Sanan, left, as they walk Aug. 29, 2016, through the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago. Bills was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday for taking up to $2 million in bribes and gifts in return for steering tens of millions of dollars in red-light camera contracts to an Arizona company.

John Bills sentenced on corruption charges

By baiduhai

June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m.

John Bills was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday for taking up to $2...

Georgia Utendhal comforts one of her granddaughters, whose 16-year-old brother was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer in the 8700 block of South Morgan Street in Chicago on July 5, 2014.

92 deaths, 2,623 bullets: Tracking every Chicago police shooting over 6 years

By Angela Caputo

June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m.

Every five days, on average, a Chicago police officer fired a gun at someone. In...

Police officers and detectives inspect a handgun found in an alley near the scene of a police-involved shooting of a juvenile at 51st and Wood streets Oct. 29, 2014, in Chicago.

Chicago police-involved shootings

By baiduhai

June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m.

Sheriff’s office charges 53 suspects in heroin crackdown

By Jim Newton

June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m.

Charges of drug-induced homicide filed against a Waukegan man Thursday capped a more than three-month...

Holy Patronage Church, 900 N. Washtenaw Ave. in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood, is part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate, one of three major Orthodox groups in that country.

Chicago priest accused of taking $500,000 from parishioner with dementia

By David Jackson

June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m.

Standing before the religious icons that line his Ukrainian Orthodox church in Humboldt Park, the...

John Valenta was sentenced to eight years in prison Friday for stealing $400,000 in a fraudulent billing scheme while working as a College of DuPage radio engineer.

December trial set for man accused in billing scheme at COD radio station

By Clifford Ward

June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m.

A December trial date has been set for the former College of DuPage radio station...