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Rep. didn’t list source of income because form was hard to understand
A Democratic legislator from the Northwest Side was paid $170,000 for work as a consultant to fellow Democrats during two years when he failed to list that work as a source of income on his required...
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Cops targeted Chicago’s most violent ‘beat.’ So crime moved next door.
Since 59-year-old Mary Fields got shot earlier this year outside her North Lawndale home, her family doesn’t come by much anymore to visit. It’s too dangerous. Fields lives with her two daughters and...
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WATCH: Newly released video shows police shootout at River West bar
A man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty in a 2015 River West shooting that involved a now-deceased Cook County correctional officer. Mario “Booty” Orta — who newly released...
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Crime on the L, CTA buses is up; 90% of serious incidents go unsolved
More than 90 percent of the serious crimes reported on CTA L trains and buses and at stations in Chicago go unsolved. Crime overall on the CTA in the city went up 16 percent last year — mostly thefts...
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Cicero cop shooting tied to gun Chicago P.D. should have destroyed
Thirteen years ago, William Stewart Boyd, a Cook County judge, drove to a South Side church to turn in a handgun his late father had owned. The Chicago Police Department was accepting guns as part of a...
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FAA stumbled probing flight from O’Hare getting too close to 2nd plane
While in Anchorage, Alaska, airspace on a flight from O’Hare Airport in 2015, the pilot of a Taiwan-based airliner accidentally flew too close to another aircraft. Though there apparently was no...
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THE WATCHDOGS: Koschman cop gets $37K in OT while fighting suspension
The last Chicago cop facing disciplinary action in the David Koschman case has been paid more than $37,000 for overtime while assigned to desk duty as he fights City Hall’s efforts to suspend him for a...
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THE WATCHDOGS: 90 airfield mishaps at O’Hare Airport since 2015
Radios at O’Hare Airport crackled with alarm: “We just had a vehicle cross the runway.” “We’re trying to track him down now.” “I don’t know what he’s doing.” The driver of the van — who managed not to...
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Claypool cuts back on CPS consultants — but not 3 he has ties to
Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool says he has cut spending on outside consultants by $18 million a year — but at the same time CPS has sharply boosted payments to three consulting firms with...
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3 Chicago cops’ story of parking garage brawl unravels, suspect freed
The day before Halloween in 2014, Joseph Baskins and his longtime girlfriend drove downtown to get married. Family and friends accompanied them for the happy occasion. Instead, Baskins ended up in...
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Chicago Police threw out bloody mattress in mysterious cop death
On Sept. 2, 2015, Officer Dina Markham reported finding her husband Sgt. Donald Markham dead in bed at their Northwest Side home, shot in the head, his gun in hand. The mattress — soaked with blood and...
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City Haul: More than a third of Chicago city workers make $100K-plus
More than one of every three Chicago city workers made $100,000 or more last year — including 36 who topped Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s $216,210 salary, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis has found. The number of...
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Labor watchdog wants answers from ex-Teamsters boss on son’s deals
Longtime Chicago Teamsters boss John T. Coli Sr. — who’s charged with extorting $100,000 from Chicago’s major TV and film studio — now also is facing scrutiny over union deals that have funneled...
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Most Chicago cops pay small price for boozing, drug use
Officer Daniel M. Houlihan had been working on Mayor Richard M. Daley’s security detail for about a year when he was charged with drunken driving for an off-duty car crash that sent him, the other...
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One lapse after another at CPS school where boy with autism drowned
On Jan. 25, Rosario Gomez, a 14-year-old boy with autism, drowned during a physical education class at Kennedy High School on the Southwest Side, somehow ending up unnoticed in the deep end of a pool...
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On duty, in uniform, suburban cops raffled off assault rifle
With some fanfare, the village of Melrose Park adopted restrictions in 2013 on assault weapons. Back then, Mayor Ron Serpico said: “The thing I can’t get my arms around, I know when the Constitution...
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Wrigley deal: Bars, rooftops get home-run breaks on property taxes
Welcome to Wrigleyville: Home of the world champion Cubs — and some of Chicago’s best deals on property taxes. Take Casey Moran’s, one of the most popular bars in the booming neighborhood. Two years...
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2-year-old narcotic prescription blocks effort to fire Chicago cop
Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson has dropped his effort to fire a police officer with a history of disciplinary problems who tested positive for the narcotic Oxycodone after the officer produced a...
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Garbage man told: Dump bloody mattress ASAP in mysterious cop death
Three hours after Chicago police Sgt. Donald Markham was pronounced dead of a gunshot wound to the head in his master bedroom, someone identifying herself as a cop called a top city garbage official...
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Reputed gang boss Labar Spann’s Cook County Jail reign of terror
While locked up at the Cook County Jail, reputed West Side gang leader Labar “Bro Man” Spann wanted everyone — jail guards, other inmates, the medical staff, even janitors — to know just how much power...
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