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Illinois’ Medicaid backlog leaves more than 100,000 without health coverage
Marlon Millner had been waiting three months for his children’s Medicaid applications to be processed when his 11-year-old son EJ busted his lip at basketball practice. Like any worried father, he...
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‘Sort of shocks the conscience,’ judge says of ex-Chicago cop charged in beating
A former Chicago police sergeant who quit under a cloud has been charged with beating two men and leaving them with serious injuries last year outside an Andersonville bar. The two counts of aggravated...
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Judge gave teen 76 years based on eyewitness he didn’t know was legally blind
Dexter Saffold took the witness stand more than five years ago and described the chaos he saw at a South Side gas station in 2011. Saffold told Cook County Circuit Judge Nicholas Ford that he watched a...
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FBI investigating engagement ring given to ex-Gov. Pat Quinn’s press secretary
A diamond engagement ring that former Gov. Pat Quinn’s campaign manager bought for Quinn’s press secretary has become part of the federal investigation that’s resulted in extortion charges against...
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s legacy: Neighborhoods didn’t flourish the way downtown did
“No world-class global city has a failing central business district. It is not in our interest as a city to pit one side of the city against another. Our challenge is to make that central business...
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Judge who convicted man in case with legally blind eyewitness retired in April
Cook County Circuit Judge Nicholas Ford, a former prosecutor whose rulings in a police brutality case and other criminal matters have come under fire on appeal, has retired. Ford, first appointed to...
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