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City of Chicago paid $1.5M in death of gang member as he faced federal scrutiny
The city of Chicago has paid $1.5 million to the family of a West Side street gang member who was under federal investigation in a major racketeering case when he died of an asthma attack after being...
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After Bridgeport banker kills himself, top debtor tries to avoid repaying $20M
One of the biggest customers of a failed Bridgeport bank has filed for bankruptcy, trying to stave off federal regulators who believe he owes more than a third of the $60 million in bad loans that led...
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Dirty schools: CPS cheated to pass cleanliness audits, janitors say
When parents, teachers or students have complained in recent years about dirty classrooms and lunchrooms, Chicago Public Schools officials have pointed to high “pass” rates found in audits by an...
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel — who was “beyond outraged” last week about revelations of unsanitary conditions found inside many Chicago Public Schools — said Monday he has spoken with schools CEO Janice Jackson,...
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For 1½ years, FBI probed mysterious cop death—but didn’t interview key official
In a case the FBI believes involved the murder of an off-duty Chicago cop, the federal agency brought in an outside pathologist, it met with the Cook County medical examiner’s staff in a failed effort...
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Ald. Maldonado accused of going easy on ‘troubled’ Humboldt Park food mart
Since 2011, the city of Chicago’s Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection has slapped Evergreen Convenient Food & Restaurant in Humboldt Park with more than 50 citations. They’ve...
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‘The N-word started it,’ lawyer says of fatal shooting by cops on Far SW Side
On a sunny weekend in 2016, racial tensions flared when two white off-duty cops fatally shot an armed black man in Mount Greenwood. Joshua Beal, 25, of Indianapolis, had been in a funeral procession in...
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Price tag to Chicago taxpayers for O’Hare, Midway maintenance work soars
Two contracts the Emanuel administration awarded to a Northlake company for work at O’Hare and Midway airports have ballooned in cost because of add-ons and extensions, records examined by the Chicago...
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Reward for dirty schools? $259 million more from the Chicago Public Schools
Chicago Public Schools officials have agreed to give $259 million in additional work to a company that couldn’t keep city schools clean, records obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times show. Aramark will be...
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Dirty schools unacceptable, Chicago Board of Ed says, vowing to keep closer tabs
The Chicago Board of Education demanded more accountability Wednesday from the two Chicago Public Schools contractors hired to oversee cleaning duties, saying dirty schools are unacceptable. That...
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$3 million research breakdown at UIC, where a star psychiatrist put kids at risk
For nearly two decades, the University of Illinois at Chicago has touted child psychiatrist Mani Pavuluri as one of its stars: She founded a renowned clinic to treat children with bipolar disorder and...
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City Hall entertained privatizing water in 2015 but passed, top Rahm aide says
In 2015, as Mayor Rahm Emanuel was in the thick of dealing with a multibillion-dollar pension shortfall and other serious financial troubles, the investment firm Goldman Sachs made an unsolicited pitch...
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UIC officials defend handling of misconduct by researcher who put kids at risk
University of Illinois at Chicago officials told faculty, staff and students Tuesday that research misconduct by Dr. Mani Pavuluri, one of the campus’ star faculty members, was an anomaly and that...
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Cost of O’Hare, Midway asphalt deal soars as City Hall keeps extending contract
In 2012, the Emanuel administration awarded a contract to K-Five Construction Corp., the low bidder to do asphalt work at O’Hare and Midway airports that was supposed to cover three years and cost no...
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Chicago has fewer beat cops despite police hiring surge, records show
More than a year into the Chicago Police Department’s biggest hiring surge in decades, 14 of the city’s 22 police districts now have fewer beat cops than they did when the push was announced, records...
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Hunt for self-proclaimed cop’s police department comes up empty
A green road sign heading in to Hopkins Park says the rural Kankakee County village has 700 residents. The sign going out of town says: pop. 800. Indisputably, the impoverished hamlet in Pembroke...
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Gunshots have struck 11 Chicago schools in the past five years, records show
While meeting with a social worker earlier this year at Lowell Elementary School in Humboldt Park, a parent noticed something odd about the window in the second-floor office. There was a small cross of...
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‘We got the right guys,’ retired ATF agent says of controversial drug stings
Chris Bayless looks the part of the tough, streetwise guy with his salt-and-pepper hair pulled back in a ponytail and wearing a black leather Harley Davidson jacket. For most of his 30-year career with...
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State of Illinois hired crooked former Chicago cop to investigate doctors
A former Chicago cop who was sentenced to federal prison for leaking sensitive police information to her gang-leader boyfriend was still able to land a job with the state of Illinois investigating...
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Teamsters boss John Coli’s tenure at Mokena local proved lucrative to son’s firm
Longtime Chicago Teamsters union boss John T. Coli Sr.’s nearly three-year tenure as head of a 12,500-member local in Mokena proved lucrative for his son Joseph Coli’s law firm, documents obtained by...
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