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Daleys, other Chicago pols raise money for Bridgeport charity with IRS problems
For 13 years, the Internal Revenue Service hounded a politically connected Bridgeport charity to pay back taxes, slapping it with a series of liens totaling $109,000, records obtained by the Chicago...
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Mom has to stay at school with kindergartner because CPS hasn’t provided nurse
In June, Liam Miller’s mom thought she already had taken care of the most important thing to get him ready for kindergarten. Because of an intestinal condition, her youngest needs a feeding tube in his...
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In a blow to one judge, his colleagues give reelection money to Democratic Party
Embattled Cook County Circuit Judge Matthew Coghlan’s hopes of keeping his job have suffered another blow. The committee that provides funding for circuit judges’ retention campaigns is turning over...
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Daley’s campaign treasurer is lawyer who hired ghost payroller on McPier’s dime
A politically connected Chicago lawyer who once testified that he hired a pal of ex-Gov. George Ryan for a do-nothing lobbying job paid for by taxpayers is now working to help get Bill Daley elected...
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Private Chicago city hauler is diverting tons of recyclables to its landfills
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration has allowed a private city recycling hauler to divert tons of plastics and paper from residences to landfills the company owns, costing taxpayers twice and adding to...
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Sprint touts its cell coverage in ads but tells FCC it can’t match competitors
You’ve probably seen the TV commercials with “Paul,” the cellphone carrier pitchman who used to work for Verizon but now touts Sprint. He used to ask, “Can you hear me now?” on Verizon’s commercials...
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Feds up reward for kingpin ‘El Mencho’ to $10M; get win in cartel cash case here
Federal officials doubled the reward Tuesday for the capture of “El Mencho,” the reputed leader of a Mexican cartel suspected of flooding Chicago with drugs, even as they pointed to a victory in their...
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Working the Story: Mansions, toilets and tax breaks
The Chicago Sun-Times reported last year that Democrat J.B. Pritzker bought a historic mansion next door to his own on the city’s Gold Coast, let it fall into disrepair — and then argued it was...
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Chicago cop’s indictment threatens wiretap evidence in Four Corner Hustlers case
Since Chicago police Sgt. Xavier Elizondo was indicted in May on federal corruption charges, there’s been a raft of misconduct lawsuits involving the officer, who’s now also facing a criminal case in...
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In Chicago, pollution hits West Side, South Side the hardest, study finds
Chicagoans in minority neighborhoods on the West Side and South Side have the greatest exposure to toxic air pollution and other environmental health hazards in the city, according to a...
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HOPE Court, created to keep probationers out of prison, shut down amid problems
A Cook County court program to keep struggling probationers out of prison was shut down this month, its state funding curtailed amid concerns about the program and the judge who presided over it. HOPE...
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Chicago cop, accused of sex crimes against teenage boys, never been disciplined
Fifteen years ago, Chicago Police Officer Eric J. Elkins was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he befriended while moonlighting as a high school security guard — a case for which he was...
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Marijuana use, rap sheets mean more wannabe Chicago cops get rejected on appeal
Rejected applicants to become Chicago cops are having a harder time winning appeals to be placed on the police eligibility list than in the past, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis has found. The city’s...
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‘His eyes were just crazy’: Man describes alleged beating by off-duty cop
John Sherwood — sitting in a wheelchair with a metal plate and screws holding together fractured bones in his right leg — said Thursday he wished his life could go back to the way it was before the...
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CTA drivers caught on video urinating, defecating on buses, face little action
That stench on your CTA bus? That puddle of urine? Turns out riders aren’t always the ones to blame. The Chicago Transit Authority has disciplined three bus drivers who were caught relieving themselves...
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Feds find massive fraud at shuttered Bridgeport bank whose prez was found dead
A century-old Bridgeport bank that federal regulators shut down last December — less than two weeks after its president was found hanged in a customer’s home — had been involved in a massive fraud...
View ArticleEx-state Sen. Althoff backed bill that her lobbying client would benefit from
Last spring, then-state Sen. Pam Althoff voted for a bill backed by Enterprise and other rental car companies to impose regulations and taxes on car-sharing services that are gaining popularity,...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court to decide whether Daley testimony on Koschman is released
Now it’s in the hands if the Illinois Supreme Court to decide whether Chicagoans can review statements former Mayor Richard M. Daley made to special prosecutor Dan K. Webb during the investigation that...
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Federal gun cases in Chicago, once lagging, hit a 10-year high
U.S. Attorney John Lausch started on the job a year ago knowing he faced a problem that vexed his predecessor: what to do to help slow the bloodshed in Chicago. President Donald Trump, who appointed...
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Federal gun prosecutions up in Chicago, fewer illegal immigration, fraud cases
It’s one of the rare things on which Mayor Rahm Emanuel and President Donald Trump agree: the need for more federal gun prosecutions in Chicago. In 2014, Chicago’s Democratic mayor declared that...
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