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IHSA retiree costs rise, but court says details can remain secret
The not-for-profit association that oversees high school sports in Illinois can continue to keep details about its contracts, sponsorships and other financial matters secret under a court ruling that...
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CPS inspector general looks at hiring of firm with Claypool ties
The Chicago Public Schools’ inspector general has opened an investigation into the hiring of a law firm with ties to CPS chief executive officer Forrest Claypool and his general counsel. Inspector...
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WATCHDOGS: Violent crime in city up virtually across the board
Violence in Chicago again is making national news, with the nine people killed Monday marking the city’s highest single-day toll of shooting deaths in years. But the Chicago Police Department and City...
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2 Chicago cops should be fired over video beating, court rules
Two off-duty Chicago cops caught on video pummeling an ex-con at 4 a.m. inside a crowded Northwest Side taco joint more than a decade ago remain on the police payroll but have been stripped of their...
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WATCHDOGS: Blacks bear brunt of marijuana enforcement in Chicago
Four years after the Chicago City Council decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana, African-American neighborhoods continue to bear the brunt of enforcement, a Chicago Sun-Times...
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Food trucks breaking the rules — a Sun-Times/ABC7 special report
Nearly four years after Chicago aldermen crafted a new law regulating food trucks, an investigation by the Chicago Sun-Times and ABC7 Chicago’s I-Team has found the rules are frequently broken with...
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THE WATCHDOGS: Park district hired clout contractor CPS fired
A bus company the Chicago Public Schools fired more than two years ago, accusing it of overbilling taxpayers at least $1.5 million, has since gotten deals worth more than $500,000 from another city...
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THE WATCHDOGS: Their property-tax bills? Zero
For the past four years, Jack Schaller didn’t have to pay a dime in property taxes on the two-story building where he lived until his death in May above Schaller’s Pump, the Bridgeport bar his family...
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CHA danger zones — a Sun-Times / BGA Watchdogs special report
On the South Side, a 22-year-old Chicago man the police said was a gang member was shot to death May 27 inside a Washington Park apartment described as “a known gang hangout.” At another South Side...
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WATCHDOGS: Embattled food trucks get conservative groups’ support
Food-truck operators in Chicago — facing a crackdown by City Hall on a business that’s found big support among the young and hip — are getting backing from groups financed by staunch conservatives...
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Koschman cop says city waited too long, can’t punish him now
A Chicago Police Department sergeant who’s facing a one-year suspension over a falsified report that cleared a nephew of former Mayor Richard M. Daley of wrongdoing in the killing of David Koschman...
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WATCHDOGS: CHA sends rents to landlord jailed in heroin ring
The Chicago Housing Authority has been paying more than $34,000 a year in rent for three Section 8 voucher-holders to lease apartments from an alleged gang leader who’s been in jail the past two years...
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WATCHDOGS: Doctor, accused in sex cases, faces fraud sentencing
Dr. Charles S. Dehaan’s specialty was house calls. Building his practice around patients too old or infirm to go to a doctor’s office for routine care, Dehaan for years traveled to see them at home and...
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Patients testify against Rockford doctor Charles Dehaan
Leaning on canes or rolling through the courtroom on motorized wheelchairs, former patients of Dr. Charles Dehaan took to the witness stand Wednesday to recount sexual assaults they claim the Rockford...
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THE WATCHDOGS: Rauner-Madigan money trees sprouting millions
As the only Republican legislator from the city of Chicago, state Rep. Michael McAuliffe has known for the past year he’s a target. “Democratic colleagues and lobbyists came up to me and said, ‘You...
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THE WATCHDOGS: CPS lawyer oversaw work done by his former firm
The top attorney for the Chicago Public Schools supervised work done for CPS by a law firm that’s still making $200,000-a-year severance payments to him, email records obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times...
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WATCHDOGS: Taxpayers may be out $8M on site tied to Daley nephews
Over the past nine years, two nephews of former Mayor Richard M. Daley have been involved in separate plans to redevelop a rundown warehouse on 15 acres of polluted land in Little Village just north of...
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WATCHDOGS: 134,683 complaints against CPD cops, only 553 firings
Chicago Police officers faced nearly 135,000 complaints over a 34-year period but less than 1 percent of those cases resulted in a firing, according to a trove of records Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s...
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THE WATCHDOGS: Daley aiming for $15 million green-card bonanza
Former Mayor Richard M. Daley and his son are aiming to cash in on a federal program that offers green cards to wealthy foreigners with a deal that could bring their company $15 million, records...
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THE WATCHDOGS: Despite promises, feds’ fight against guns lagging
For all the promises from federal authorities to do all they can to help Chicago fight gun violence, their prosecutions of gun crimes here have remained stagnant, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation has...
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