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Rahm’s unhappy, so park district trashes Supt. Kelly’s golden-parachute contract
Under fire from Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago Park District and Supt. Mike Kelly “mutually decided” Thursday to trash a three-plus-year golden-parachute contract that Kelly was given just over two...
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Feds’ wiretap shows Madigan, Solis eyed development of state land in Chinatown
The unfolding federal investigation of Ald. Danny Solis (25th) has exposed the behind-the-scenes machinations over a 2.7-acre parcel of state-owned land in Chinatown. For nearly four decades, the...
View ArticleNew name for Mundelein retreat center where priests accused of abuse were sent
While serving as a priest in the Chicago area in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, James M. Ray engaged in disturbing conduct, according to allegations contained in church records, from having children sit...
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Customer of failed Bridgeport bank charged with fraud, forcing way into office
One of the biggest customers of a failed Bridgeport bank, accompanied by a gun-carrying attorney, forced his way into his former office after losing the office in bankruptcy, federal prosecutors say....
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Chicago spent more than $113 million on police misconduct lawsuits in 2018
The city of Chicago paid more than $85 million last year to settle police misconduct lawsuits and another $28 million to private attorneys to defend City Hall in those cases, records show. The $113...
View ArticleIRS investigating erroneous tax documents sent to 100s naming Skokie car dealer
The Internal Revenue Service is investigating a bizarre case in which hundreds of taxpayers were wrongly flagged as having received millions of dollars in income from a north suburban car dealer,...
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Trash, permit violations and mud: why some Chicagoans hate ‘Windy City Rehab’
A reality TV show that transforms Chicago fixer-uppers into million-dollar homes is creating lots of buzz — but angry residents and an alderman say the show is a bad neighbor. Complaints abound from...
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Records: UIC missed warning signs on child psychiatrist’s research going awry
For a year, the University of Illinois at Chicago has downplayed problems in its oversight of the work of a prominent child psychiatrist who violated research protocols and put vulnerable children with...
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Once accused of strangling friend, Chicago man charged with choking girlfriend
Eleven years ago, a Cook County prosecutor decided not to pursue a criminal case against Joseph Cunningham, a Northwest Side man who had been arrested twice in the strangulation death of a coworker....
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FBI grilled Cook County judge with ties to indicted Chicago cop
Cook County Circuit Judge Mauricio Araujo attended the wake for the mother of Chicago cop David Salgado. Araujo dropped by Salgado’s bachelor party — in South America. And Araujo was invited to his...
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Trump insider wanted to develop S. Loop site but couldn’t strike deal with Rezko
For decades, a colorful and changing cast has been angling to build on 62 vacant acres along the Chicago River just south of the Loop, a project City Hall now hopes to jump-start with money from...
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Congress about to ban IRS from offering free online tax filing. Thank TurboTax.
A bill that has support from Democrats and Republicans would prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from ever developing its own online tax-filing service. Just in time for Tax Day, the for-profit...
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Costs pile up at CPS-funded charter network over CEO who ‘acted inappropriately’
Chicago’s Noble Network of Charter Schools has spent $326,000 for costs related to the sudden retirement in November of its founder and CEO, who said he’d “acted inappropriately” with recent female...
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Do you have a recalled dehumidifier like one that caught fire, killing this dog?
They’ve caused hundreds of house fires with millions in damages and figured in last month’s first-ever criminal charges under a federal product-safety law. But despite a national recall, thousands of...
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‘El Chapo’ lieutenant Jesus Raul Beltran Leon pleads guilty to drug conspiracy
A top lieutenant in the drug cartel led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera pleaded guilty to a drug conspiracy Wednesday in federal court in Chicago. Jesus Raul Beltran Leon, 35, admitted his role in...
View ArticleAnother O’Hare runway mishap: City worker drove in front of landing jetliner
With construction underway on another O’Hare Airport runway, the Chicago Department of Aviation has been taking extra steps to keep contractors unfamiliar with the airfield’s labyrinthine layout of...
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Ald. Edward Burke cashed in on projects he boasted of landing for his ward
Embattled Ald. Edward M. Burke, who won re-election in February despite facing federal corruption charges, boasted during his campaign about how he brought home the bacon — literally — to his Southwest...
View ArticleO’Hare runway mishaps: Despite errors, city workers face little discipline
Early one morning last May, a city of Chicago electrician who works at O’Hare Airport was driving on the airfield and crossed Runway 22-Left. That turned out to be a problem. The runway was “live” —...
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Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson under scrutiny in probe of failed Bridgeport bank
Two years ago, city of Chicago inspectors showed up at the Daley family’s longtime political headquarters, a stout brick structure in Bridgeport that houses offices for Cook County Commissioner John P....
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Illinois’ Medicaid backlog leaves more than 100,000 without health coverage
Marlon Millner had been waiting three months for his children’s Medicaid applications to be processed when his 11-year-old son EJ busted his lip at basketball practice. Like any worried father, he...
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‘Sort of shocks the conscience,’ judge says of ex-Chicago cop charged in beating
A former Chicago police sergeant who quit under a cloud has been charged with beating two men and leaving them with serious injuries last year outside an Andersonville bar. The two counts of aggravated...
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Judge gave teen 76 years based on eyewitness he didn’t know was legally blind
Dexter Saffold took the witness stand more than five years ago and described the chaos he saw at a South Side gas station in 2011. Saffold told Cook County Circuit Judge Nicholas Ford that he watched a...
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FBI investigating engagement ring given to ex-Gov. Pat Quinn’s press secretary
A diamond engagement ring that former Gov. Pat Quinn’s campaign manager bought for Quinn’s press secretary has become part of the federal investigation that’s resulted in extortion charges against...
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s legacy: Neighborhoods didn’t flourish the way downtown did
“No world-class global city has a failing central business district. It is not in our interest as a city to pit one side of the city against another. Our challenge is to make that central business...
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Judge who convicted man in case with legally blind eyewitness retired in April
Cook County Circuit Judge Nicholas Ford, a former prosecutor whose rulings in a police brutality case and other criminal matters have come under fire on appeal, has retired. Ford, first appointed to...
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