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A federal jury on Thursday began deliberating the fate of a politically connected Chicago businessman accused of corrupting the political process by attempting to pay off…
An audit by the Chicago Office of the Inspector General found that the city’s Department of Public Health doesn’t fully enforce a recycling ordinance related to…
The son of former Democratic state Rep. Edward Acevedo was sentenced to one month in prison Wednesday for federal tax fraud conviction connected to the sprawling…
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said Wednesday in a newspaper report that he won’t sign the state budget if Republican lawmakers follow through on…
With a new mayoral administration, no permanent police superintendent and a new federal judge overseeing the case, the Chicago Police Department’s consent decree is in grave…
James T. Weiss, 44, who is the son-in-law of former Cook County Democratic boss Joseph Berrios, is charged in a superseding indictment filed in October 2020…
The commission tasked with finding three finalists for the vacant Chicago police superintendent job has completed two rounds of candidate interviews and remains on track to…
Waukegan and Libertyville police are investigating separate shooting incidents this week, including a Tuesday road-rage encounter in which a man was shot in the leg.None of…
Closing arguments were set to begin Wednesday in the bribery trial of a politically connected Chicago businessman accused of arranging to pay off two state legislators…
Since the Chicago Bears hit a financial roadblock in their proposed move to Arlington Heights, other municipalities have been vying in a sort of roulette to…