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‘Clean’ dumps might not be so clean, attorney general Madigan’s lawsuits say
For seven years, Wendy and Terry Greenrod complained to local and state officials that the two quarries-turned-landfills along the Fox River that bookend their LaSalle County home were taking in banned...
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Another O’Hare deal sees costs soar thanks to City Hall’s no-bid add-ons
In late 2011, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration gave a no-bid, five-year deal for $115 million to a politically connected partnership to operate and maintain O’Hare Airport’s in-house transit system...
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Koschman cop Sam Cirone, fighting recommended year’s suspension, loses appeal
The last Chicago cop facing discipline in the David Koschman case has lost a court appeal to block the Chicago Police Board from acting on a recommendation to suspend him for a year. On Friday, the...
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CPS kills $60M deal at the last minute over sexual harassment of janitors
Just before a scheduled vote, Chicago Public Schools officials withdrew plans to approve a $60.6 million contract for school cleaning and other facilities management work because the company set to be...
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Water rec. district OKs $95,000 payment to former boss who quit after probe
The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago agreed Thursday to pay $95,000 to its former boss, who resigned after an investigation by the agency’s board into an unspecified matter....
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Marijuana enforcement in Chicago falls but still lands heaviest on blacks
Since the city of Chicago and state of Illinois moved to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana, the number of arrests in the city for such petty crimes has plummeted. But even as...
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Alex Pissios’ to-do list: Help feds on Teamsters boss case, go on spending spree
The president of Chicago’s biggest movie studio — who’s the star witness in the extortion case against longtime Chicago Teamsters union boss John Coli Sr. — has been on a shopping spree since he began...
View ArticleDespite federal probe, judge gives to Dorothy Brown’s campaign — again
The federal investigation that’s been looking into job-selling and on-the-clock politicking in the office of the Cook County circuit court clerk hasn’t kept one of Cook County’s presiding judges from...
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Doctor fired by Cook County medical examiner now under the microscope in Indiana
A onetime high-ranking doctor in the Cook County medical examiner’s office who was fired after an internal review found he botched autopsies — including one in which he failed “to recognize a homicide”...
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Killing ‘Kato’: the story of Latin Kings boss Rudy Rangel Jr.’s murder
Rudy Rangel Jr. liked to keep his hair short. So Rangel, a leader of the Latin Kings, one of Chicago’s biggest street gangs, had been going several times a month to Nationwide Cutz, a barbershop...
View ArticleCity Hall going after parking-lot owner for not meeting settlement terms
City Hall now wants to punish the owner of a Near West Side parking lot — who had been parking cars on city-owned land near the United Center for years without paying rent — for failing to meet the...
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Chicago banker donated to Trump campaign around time of loans to Paul Manafort
On Nov. 9, 2016, the day after Donald Trump was elected president, his campaign recorded its first contribution from Chicago banker Stephen M. Calk — for $2,700, the maximum allowed under federal...
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Prisoner Review Board routinely rejects parole, 1 member nearly always saying no
Last January, Illinois inmate Dewayne Roby won the rarest of endorsements. Seeking parole after four decades in prison for a murder, rape and robbery he committed as a 16-year-old, Roby won the vote of...
View ArticleDespite ‘zero-tolerance’ crackdown, CTA drivers crash while on phones, keep jobs
Nearly a decade ago, the CTA put in place what the agency said would be a “zero-tolerance” policy barring bus drivers and L operators from using personal cellphones “while on-duty and operating CTA...
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Out of prison, Chicago Outfit-tied scammer Lee Anglin vows: I’ll repay victims
Lee Anglin is back in town. He might not be a household name, but he certainly is well known in Chicago’s underworld. His colorful resume includes stints as: a debt collector for loansharks, a...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Chicago: President’s web of connections come into the spotlight
You don’t get more New York than Donald Trump. But the president’s ties to Chicago — directly and also through family, friends and associates — run deep, well beyond his namesake tower along the...
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Watchdog finds Barbara Byrd-Bennett taint on Camelot’s alternative schools bid
One of Chicago Public Schools’ largest alternative schools providers, the for-profit Camelot Education, could be permanently banned from CPS or ordered to pay steep fines because the schools inspector...
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Rahm crony who helped bank in Manafort case get city grant got $700K in loans
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and mayoral confidant Martin Cabrera Jr. played key roles in giving a taxpayer-funded financial lifeline to a Chicago bank now enmeshed in the tax- and bank-fraud trial of former...
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Clout company hired child-sex predator to park cars on Chicago school lot
A politically connected company that has five leases to park cars on land owned by the Chicago Public Schools employed a convicted child-sexual predator to help Cubs fans park their cars on a school...
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Cook County judge denies claim that, as prosecutor, he framed 2 murder suspects
Cook County Circuit Judge Matthew Coghlan has denied in a court filing he helped frame two innocent men for murder 25 years ago. Armando Serrano and Jose Montanez contend in federal lawsuits that...
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