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Taxpayers covered millions in park gym costs Jesse White promised to pay for
When Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White unveiled plans nine years ago for a North Side fieldhouse that would bear his name, he promised that his private charitable foundation and its donors would...
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Ald. Edward Burke dumped as tax lawyer by developers of Lincoln Yards, ‘The 78’
For 10 years, Sterling Bay, one of Chicago’s biggest developers, used Ald. Edward M. Burke’s law firm Klafter & Burke to seek property tax cuts. But not anymore. The firm behind the massive Lincoln...
View ArticleLeaving Legislature lucrative for Ed Burke brother now drawing $160K in pensions
Dan Burke is gone from the Illinois General Assembly after losing his 2018 reelection bid in embarrassing fashion and then resigning before his term was up, days before a criminal complaint was...
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Ex-Mayor Richard M. Daley’s testimony in Koschman case stays secret: high court
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Friday against releasing statements former Mayor Richard M. Daley and his family gave a special prosecutor during the investigation that sent Daley’s nephew Richard J....
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Brian Hynes: The political insider in the middle of FBI’s Solis investigation
Over the past decade, attorney Brian F. Hynes has gone from being a clout-heavy lobbyist to running a business that’s making him a fortune off of unpaid bills owed by the state of Illinois. Now, Hynes...
View ArticleArchdiocese awaits outcome of Burke case before deciding about keeping $10K gift
The Archdiocese of Chicago is weighing whether to keep a $10,000 donation pledged by Ald. Edward M. Burke now that he’s charged with corruption. “We are awaiting the outcome of the case before making a...
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Consumers, beware: Used car dealers are selling vehicles despite open recalls
In October 2016, Corey Jackson was at a used car lot in South Chicago Heights, signing the papers to buy a 2008 Buick LaCrosse. He was excited about the leather interior, sunroof and heated seats — but...
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Chicago cop resigns amid investigations of sex crime against teen boy, bar fight
A Chicago police sergeant who’d been on desk duty since shortly after he was accused of touching the genitals of a teenage boy over his clothes at a Fourth of July family reunion in Michigan in 2015...
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Judge bars publication of new details on 2017 student drowning at CPS pool
A Cook County circuit judge has barred the publishing of details from hundreds of pages of internal Chicago Public Schools records that CPS released regarding the 2017 drowning death of a 14-year-old...
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Ald. Edward Burke built ‘special police’ force after Rahm cut bodyguard detail
After he was elected in 2011, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, facing budget problems and a shortage of officers on the streets, said he’d cut the bodyguard detail for Ald. Edward M. Burke (14th), paring it from...
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CPS to pay $4M in special ed. teen’s drowning after lifeguard ‘ignored’ alerts
Someone was at the bottom of the pool at Kennedy High School, not moving. At least three students told that to the Chicago Public Schools lifeguard on duty. But the lifeguard ignored them, according to...
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Burke’s breaks: Embattled alderman got tax cuts on home, office just by asking
Ald. Edward M. Burke — who’s in the re-election fight of his life as he faces a criminal charge that he tried to extort a fast-food franchise owner — got property tax breaks on his house and political...
View ArticleMuch of $100 million from sale of Holy Name lot to go to church sex-abuse debts
Anticipating getting $100 million or more from the sale of a parking lot at Holy Name Cathedral, the Archdiocese of Chicago expects to spend most of that windfall repaying money that was borrowed to...
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CPD fears revenge killings after Black Disciples gang leader is gunned down
He doesn’t have a household name like Larry Hoover, Jeff Fort or other infamous leaders of Chicago gangs. Lawrence “Big Law” Loggins kept a low profile — no mentions in the newspaper and no arrests...
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City official testified Ald. Harry Osterman was part of Daley’s hiring scandal
For much of Mayor Richard M. Daley’s record reign, City Hall operated an illegal hiring scheme, skewing test results so political supporters of the mayor and his allies got jobs and promotions. Federal...
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Archdiocese: Didn’t know for years that 3 ‘order’ clerics faced sex accusations
Asked in September about whether the Archdiocese of Chicago keeps track of religious order priests who have been accused of sexual abuse, Cardinal Blase Cupich’s spokeswoman Paula Waters said, “It is...
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Rahm’s agency heads could outlast him thanks to golden parachute contracts
Rahm Emanuel’s mayoral reign ends in May, but thanks to contracts he’s extended to many key agency heads, whoever replaces Emanuel will be stuck with them for years to come — or pay handsomely for the...
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Under Mayor Rahm Emanuel, city has sharply scaled back environmental enforcement
Even as Mayor Rahm Emanuel has criticized state and federal officials for rolling back environmental protections and played up his own green credentials, City Hall has cut back sharply on environmental...
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Chicago cop’s pension sweetened while under investigation for molesting teenager
Chicago police Sgt. Eric J. Elkins was 43 years old and on desk duty in 2017, awaiting the results of an internal affairs investigation of allegations he drunkenly fondled a teenage boy in Michigan two...
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Judge OKs CPS paying $4M to family of autistic teen who, unwatched, drowned
A Cook County judge has signed off on the largest settlement the Chicago Public Schools system has paid in years — $4 million to the family of a special education student who drowned in Kennedy High...
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