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Rahm housing aid program helps buy pricey digs in posh neighborhoods
A housing-assistance program that Mayor Rahm Emanuel set up two years ago to help people with “low to moderate incomes” buy homes has frequently ended up financing pricey homes in expensive...
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Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said Monday said his department is still working toward a police force that roughly mirrors the demographics of the city, which is divided roughly in thirds among...
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Maldonado gets more campaign cash from landlord of ‘troubled’ Humboldt Park biz
Weeks after a report that he’d taken campaign contributions from a landlord whose Humboldt Park building houses a “troubled” convenience store neighbors say has been a magnet for gang activity, Ald....
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Unprecedented review after medical examiner fires doctor who missed a murder
Early one morning last October, Chicago firefighters responding to a smoky 15-unit building at 79th and Greenwood made a gruesome discovery in a third-floor apartment that was burning: the decomposing...
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CPS inspector blasts former CEO, ex-board member for ‘horrible’ ethical lapses
Disgraced former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett, now in prison for a kickback scheme involving millions of dollars in school contracts, accepted lavish meals at some of the city’s...
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Fast lane: Potential challenger to Mayor Rahm Emanuel racks up tickets from city
Cook County Commissioner Bridget Gainer, who’s weighing whether to try to unseat Mayor Rahm Emanuel next year, already has done her part to boost City Hall’s finances. Records show that, since 2013,...
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Chicago Public Schools’ facilities chief is out after dirty schools scandal
The Chicago Public Schools’ facilities chief is out in the wake of a scandal over filthy schools. Leslie Fowler, 49, had led the team at CPS responsible for dealing with the dirty conditions found in...
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Hired Truck figure benefits from city’s no-bid waste-station contract extensions
It was seen as a sweet deal for a foul-smelling task: The city of Chicago hired three clout-heavy companies in 2010, the waning days of Mayor Richard M. Daley’s administration, to operate city-owned...
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Chicago cop’s girlfriend: He taunted me to shoot myself with his gun, so I did
After playing pool and drinking at a bar on a Sunday night in February, off-duty Chicago police Sgt. John R. Schuler and his girlfriend headed back to his house on the Northwest Side. They kept...
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Number of longer sentences in Cook County under new get-tough gun law? Zero
The aim of the law was simple: Repeat gun offenders in Illinois would face tougher sentences. But a Chicago Sun-Times review of sentences in Cook County since that new law took effect in January has...
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Chicago firefighter investigated in fatal Mount Greenwood melee kills himself
A Chicago firefighter under investigation for his role in a racially charged melee that led to the fatal shooting of an African-American man by police in 2016 has taken his own life. Ryne Kinsella, 28,...
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The Donald and The Alderman break up; Burke no longer doing tax work for Trump
“Irreconcilable differences” have led to countless divorces. Now, the same reason is being given for the breakup of President Donald Trump and Ald. Edward M. Burke (14th). The powerful Chicago...
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After shooting fiancée, ex-cop was hired, promoted by medical examiner
Late one night in the spring of 2012, Anthony Finnelly and his fiancée got into an argument at their home outside Dallas — he’d been drinking, so she wanted his gun for safekeeping, records show....
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To avoid prison, Chicago movie studio mogul went undercover for feds
As president of Chicago’s largest movie studio — home to hit TV shows like “Chicago Fire” and “Empire” — Alexander S. “Alex” Pissios had a difficult choice to make two years ago. Federal authorities...
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Toni Preckwinkle wants to weaken law that her medical examiner doesn’t follow
The Cook County medical examiner’s office routinely fails to abide by a requirement that it send an investigator to the scene of every suspicious death, including all homicides and suicides. Now,...
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Rahm’s tabloid tie: Mayor once worked on deal with Enquirer boss linked to Trump
One name that’s turned up frequently in news coverage of women who have accused President Donald Trump of extramarital affairs has been David Pecker. That’s usually been to note that the company headed...
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Chicago police sergeant once was an FBI task force member, now is an FBI trophy
Federal corruption charges filed last month against two Chicago cops hit close to home not just for the police but also for the FBI. Chicago police Sgt. Xavier Elizondo had worked closely with the FBI...
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After autistic teen drowned at CPS pool, Board of Ed to beef up water safety
Chicago Public Schools officials have said that a pool at a Southwest Side high school was properly staffed when a 14-year-old boy with autism slipped unnoticed by six CPS staffers into a school pool...
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Security guard sues two indicted Chicago cops, saying they stole cash and guns
Two Chicago cops facing corruption charges were sued Monday in federal court, accused of stealing cash, watches and guns from a security guard’s apartment on the Southwest Side. Sgt. Xavier Elizondo...
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Cook County Board votes to weaken law county medical examiner doesn’t follow
The Cook County medical examiner’s office, which routinely hasn’t abided by a requirement that it send an investigator to the scene of every suspicious death, no longer will be required to do so. The...
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