Illinois plastic surgeon with 8 patient deaths faces another license suspension
The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs temporarily suspended Dr. Ayoub Sayeg’s medical license,...
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Illinois, Chicago, Cook County got $11B in pandemic aid but there were gaps in oversight and transparency
The Tribune and the University of Chicago's Mansueto Institute examined how Illinois, Chicago and Cook...
Illinois ignores rules and red flags as ‘servant leader’ runs up $100M state tab, then closes 2 hospitals
West Suburban and Weiss Memorial's collapse illustrates what can go wrong in a state that...
Bail set at $1M for man charged after weapons cache discovered in Elgin
Bail was set at $1 million Tuesday for a Addison man after Elgin Police, assisting...
Illinois contract pig farmer: Work is low-paying, physically punishing
The low-slung sheds where some 20,000 pigs grow to market weight each year are unmarked...
Waste spill at Cargill slaughterhouse contaminates waterways
When an estimated 29 million gallons of hog waste started pouring into the ditches and...
Spills of pig waste kill hundreds of thousands of fish in Illinois
Walking the Iroquois County streams his family had fished for decades, Leland Ponton was nearly...
Whipped, kicked, beaten: Illinois workers describe abuse of hogs
Weeks after taking a job as a breeding technician at Eagle Point Farms, an anguished...
Sen. Dick Durbin urges stronger oversight of Illinois hog farming
Illinois must do more to protect livestock animals from abuse and mistreatment inside the large...
The price of pork: Cheap meat comes at high cost in Illinois
When the sickening odor swept across Matt Heissinger's farmstead, his daughter would sprint from their...
Pork industry, activists debate cruelty recorded in undercover videos
Undercover videos by animal welfare activists have documented the cruelty that can occur inside America's...
Pork producers defend gestation crates, but consumers demand change
With a gentle, expert touch, pork industry executive Phil Borgic inspects the sow in the...
Illinois road commissioner took on hog industry and won – for a brief time
For years, pork producers have been opening immense hog confinements in Illinois despite the objections...