City To Pay $7 Million To Burge Torture Victims; Daley Won't Have To Testify
Chicago will pay millions to two victims of former police Cmdr. Jon Burge's torture, while former Mayor Richard M. Daley will not have to testify in the cases.
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Chicago will pay millions to two victims of former police Cmdr. Jon Burge's torture, while former Mayor Richard M. Daley will not have to testify in the cases.
Award-winning Chicago Sun-Times reporter Abdon Pallasch is going from reporter to newsmaker, as he has been appointed by Gov. Pat Quinn as assistant Illinois State Budget director.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is urging the railroad industry to help prevent future train derailments that might be caused by extreme heat by conducting more frequent track inspections.
A former Democratic Congressman running to get his old job back is critical of the way he says bipartisan cooperation is falling out of favor on Capitol Hill.
A City Council panel has signed off on a plan that would legalize food trucks that cook their food on board, over the complaints from both food truck owners and traditional restaurants.
A political insider who became one of the government's key witnesses in the corruption investigation of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration was sentenced Thursday to 5 1/2 years in prison.
A special Illinois House committee has recommended that State Rep. Derrick Smith be expelled from the House, over allegations he took a $7,000 bribe.
A federal judge agreed to delay the sentencing of a onetime Springfield powerbroker with ties to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich for a second time Wednesday because of health issues.
Wheaton College on Wednesday joined Catholic University of America in filing a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's requirement that employers, except for churches, provide insurance that covers birth control services.
The Chicago Board of Education and the Chicago Teachers Union have both unanimously rejected an independent arbitrator's suggestions on how to end the contract stalemate with public school teachers.
The agency that oversees ethics issues for City Hall is reportedly falling down on the job.
I knew it would happen. It had to happen – that Chicago would become an issue in the presidential campaign, that Mitt Romney would bark at President Barack Obama about being from Chicago.
A campaign worker for former state Sen. Rickey Hendon is among the seven people arrested on federal bribery charges.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel today dismissed a mediator's report that school officials had hoped would provide added bargaining power in their contract talks with teachers.
Ali Ata, one of the last figures to be sentenced after being ensnared by the investigation that sent former Gov. Rod Blagojevich to prison, won't have to serve a day in prison.
