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Cook County prosecutors want a 2nd opinion on fired pathologist’s murder finding
Donol Clark has been locked up in the Cook County Jail for nearly six years, charged with killing his girlfriend, Gena Chiodo, whose decomposed body was found in a wooded area in Indiana. Before Clark...
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State has given $420 million in tax breaks to TV shows, movies, won’t detail why
Over the past decade, the state of Illinois has given nearly $420 million in tax breaks to companies that came to the state to make television shows such as “Chicago Fire,” movies like “Transformers”...
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Lives lost: These are the victims of Chicago’s bloodiest weekend of 2018
These are stories of the lives Chicago lost last weekend, the bloodiest all year in a city that’s become all too well known for violence. From 5 p.m. Aug. 3 until 5 a.m. Monday, 71 people were shot in...
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Cook County judge seeking retention had 34 decisions struck down in 6 years
Thirty-four times in the past six years, the Illinois Appellate Court has upended decisions by Cook County Circuit Judge Maura Slattery Boyle based on her errors, overturning her decisions at a pace...
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Chicago cop promoted to lieutenant amid sexual misconduct investigation, lawsuit
Chicago police Lt. Gerald Breimon has been accused of fondling a woman he told he needed to frisk for weapons during a traffic stop, demanding sex from another woman — a cop — and threatening to ruin...
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Guilty in Loop swastika incident, man wears neo-Nazi symbol to community service
An accountant from Oak Brook who pleaded guilty last year to smashing a window at a downtown synagogue and putting swastika stickers on its doors is back in jail for violating his probation by showing...
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Freed murder defendant says he was jailed 19 months because of botched autopsy
Ronnie Winfield was accused of strangling his 76-year-old neighbor Leannia Hall during a romantic encounter inside her Humboldt Park home late one March night in 2014. Winfield, then 65, unwaveringly...
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Bishop who didn’t alert police on abuser-priests is living at cardinal’s mansion
When word began to spread in 1989 that Vincent McCaffrey, a Chicago-area Catholic priest, had been accused of molesting children, a top church official expressed concern — about word getting out....
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What happened to the immigrant children separated from parents, sent to Chicago
They were as young as 10 months, as old as almost 18. About one-third of the children who ended up in Chicago came from Guatemala. Others had fled Brazil, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize, Romania and...
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In hazy market for reselling diabetic test strips, Chicago company is under fire
A Chicago business that buys and resells diabetic testing supplies has drawn attention to a hazy “gray market” of online buyers and sellers. Surplus Diabetic Supplies LLC, which operates online as...
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Chicago pension fiasco: $54M lost on deal with Daley nephew, ex-Obama boss
A dozen years ago, five financially strapped city of Chicago pension funds invested $68 million in a shaky real estate deal put together by a former boss of President Barack Obama and a nephew of Mayor...
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‘Fowl’-up with gun could send ex-Melrose Park police chief back to prison
Convicted in a racketeering and extortion scheme in 2009 and sent to prison, former Melrose Park police Chief Vito Scavo has run afoul of the law again — this time because of, well, fowl. And he could...
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Priest in sex-abuse probe to move away from Catholic grade school amid furor
When a student reported last year that she had seen an image of a naked boy on the Rev. Richard McGrath’s cellphone, the priest, who was president of Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox, was...
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In a rare move, Cook County Democratic Party refuses to endorse a sitting judge
The Cook County Democratic Party took the rare step Friday of refusing to endorse a sitting Cook County judge, deciding not to recommend Circuit Judge Matthew Coghlan for reelection in November. The...
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Flood of Colombian cocaine headed to Chicago, other big U.S. cities, DEA says
In Colombia, former rebels have been taking advantage of a 2016 peace treaty by ramping up production of cocaine in their jungle strongholds — and top U.S. drug-fighting authorities say that surge will...
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One Cook County judge bucks chief judge’s order against unaffordably high bail
When Cook County’s chief judge announced last year that judges who preside over bail hearings would be required to take financial circumstances into account in deciding bail, the order was a victory...
View ArticleJudge: Sun-Times broke privacy law with details on cops in Daley nephew lineup
The Chicago Sun-Times violated federal privacy law in publishing the birth months and years, heights, weights and hair and eye colors of five Chicago police officers who acted as “fillers” in a police...
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Game of thrones? Watchdog sees ‘scheme to defraud’ in Pritzker toilet tax break
Cook County’s chief watchdog has concluded that more than $330,000 in property tax breaks and refunds that Democratic gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker received on one of his Gold Coast mansions —...
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J.B. Pritzker moves to mop up toilet mess — vows to pay back $330,000 tax break
Democratic gubernatorial nominee J.B. Pritzker has steadfastly defended the $330,000 property tax break he got in part by disabling the toilets in a Gold Coast mansion he owns — but on Tuesday the...
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Despite arrests, convictions, Chicago Fire Department paramedic still on the job
When Peter Kamar applied for a job as a paramedic with the Chicago Fire Department in April 2014, he admitted there was a mark against hiring him. A felony conviction for possession of a stolen...
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