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Indicted former Chicago Teamsters boss John T. Coli Sr. booted out by union
He was one of the most powerful labor leaders in Chicago for a quarter century, winning lucrative union contracts from — and building crucial political alliances with — Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Gov. Bruce...
View ArticleMurder ‘clearance’ rate in Chicago hit new low in 2017
Even as the Chicago Police Department touts technology-fueled successes in reducing the number of shootings in the city, detectives are struggling to solve killings, with their murder “clearance” rate...
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Lipinski seeks IRS probe of think tank leaders after Sun-Times-ProPublica report
U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski is asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether a series of financial deals improperly benefited the leaders of the Illinois Policy Institute — the latest call for...
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Ald. Edward Burke benefited, Chicago-style, from Vienna hot dog deals
This is a story about how hot dogs and money are made, Chicago-style. Nine months after Ald. Edward M. Burke led the Chicago City Council in approving a nearly $5 million tax deal for Vienna Beef to...
View Article2 dozen CTA, Metra workers disciplined over speeding trains in past 5 years
Turns out that lead-foots in the Chicago area aren’t just on the Dan Ryan and Kennedy expressways. The CTA, Metra and the Union Pacific Railroad, which operates several routes for Metra, have recorded...
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With CPS set to close 4 South Side schools, questions on community support
When Chicago Public Schools leaders announced plans to permanently close Englewood’s four high schools and replace them with a new, $85 million school, they cited the schools’ plunging enrollment along...
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Cancel vote to close Englewood schools, protesters say, citing Sun-Times report
A group of parents and community activists called on Chicago Public Schools officials Monday to cancel a vote scheduled for Wednesday on permanently closing Englewood’s four high schools and replacing...
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Kratom, health supplement targeted by FDA, linked to 9 deaths in Cook County
At a corner store in Bucktown, a 10-gram silver-foil pouch of an herbal supplement called Bali Red kratom goes for about $10. A middle-aged customer said he uses kratom — a Southeast Asian plant that...
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Why did Bridgeport bank president kill himself in customer’s Park Ridge home?
Founded to serve Polish immigrants, Washington Federal Bank for Savings, a small, family-owned bank, operated in Bridgeport for more than a century. Some compared it to the “building and loan” in “It’s...
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Pothole complaints up 14 percent in Chicago — the most in 3 years
On Feb. 8, Robyn Palmersheim had to get new tires for the third time in two years because of a blowout caused by hitting a pothole on Chicago’s streets. “It was a significant hole in the street,”...
View ArticleDespite O’Hare safety boasts, FAA slammed city’s handling of winter operations
In November, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s aviation commissioner Ginger Evans boasted that O’Hare Airport operates so well in winter that it’s “recognized in the aviation industry as a leader” for “safe and...
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Judge duns U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush for delinquent loan, taps his congressional pay
U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush must give up 15 percent of his congressional salary to begin repaying more than $1 million he owes on a delinquent bank loan to his now-shuttered Englewood church, a judge in...
View Article15 got promotions from Court Clerk Dorothy Brown within 6 months of donations
More than a dozen employees of Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown’s office and their family members made campaign contributions to Brown within six months of getting a promotion and pay...
View ArticleWatchdogs update: CPS moves to ban clouted bus company
Chicago Public Schools leaders are poised to finally block a politically connected bus company from being eligible to get any future business from CPS — years after the firm was first accused of...
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FBI files reveal cheating allegations in mysterious Chicago cop deaths
On the night off-duty Chicago police Sgt. Donald Markham was found shot to death inside his Northwest Side home in September 2015, he and his cop-wife Dina Markham had been arguing, with him accusing...
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Read the FBI files here on the mysterious deaths of 2 Chicago cops
As part of a continuing series of reports on the deaths of two Chicago cops, Sgt. Donald Markham and his wife Officer Dina Markham, the Chicago Sun-Times obtained a cache of previously unreleased FBI...
View ArticleHouse ethics panel orders payments from U.S. Reps. Bobby Rush, Luis Gutierrez
Ending congressional investigations pending for years, the House Ethics Committee on Thursday determined that, in separate cases, U.S. Reps. Luis Gutierrez and Bobby Rush, Illinois Democrats, violated...
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700 dogs have been shot or shot at by police in Chicago in the past decade
Lady, a black Labrador retriever, was wagging her tail when she ran up to Chicago cop who shotgunned her as he executed a search warrant on a South Side apartment in 2009. Her death ended up costing...
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Madigan panel’s Mendoza claims independence despite ties to ousted operatives
Illinois state Comptroller Susana Mendoza is one of three female politicians House Speaker Michael Madigan named to “take the lead on facilitating a statewide discussion about the role of women” in the...
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CPS inspections ‘blitz’ finds rat droppings, bugs, filth in schools
The discovery of rats and rodent droppings throughout the building at Mollison Elementary School in Bronzeville and two failed health inspections there last fall prompted Chicago Public Schools...
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