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Reuben F. Goodwin Sr. arrives at court in the Daley Center on Dec. 16, 2016.

Illinois shut down his group home network over risk to residents. Now he’s been convicted of health care fraud for unneeded medical tests.

June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

The head of a shuttered Chicago-area network of group homes for adults with disabilities has been convicted of accepting kickbacks in a scheme to steer biological samples to a St....

Members of the jury for Robin Gecht examine the van used in the attempted murder of a North Side woman who was raped, sexually mutilated and left for dead along railroad tracks in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood, Sept. 22, 1983.

Thomas Kokoraleis, Ripper Crew murderer released from prison, registers to live at Aurora halfway house

May 23, 2019 at 1:55 a.m.

A day before his deadline, a convicted murderer from the sexually sadistic Ripper Crew has notified the Aurora police that he is set to live at a halfway house in...

Thomas Kokoraleis, murderer from notorious Ripper Crew, headed to Wheaton to begin life as a free man

May 23, 2019 at 1:54 a.m.

A member of the murderous 1980s Ripper Crew began a new life of freedom just before sunrise Friday, traveling to Galesburg by bus and to Chicago by train after authorities...

Then-Ald. Toni Preckwinkle, 4th, and Ald. Edward Burke, 14th, chat during a Chicago City Council meeting in 2007. Now a mayoral candidate, Preckwinkle has sought to minimize her ties to him.

Ed Burke’s son spared from Preckwinkle pop tax layoffs, records show deeper ties

June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle laid off hundreds of workers after her controversial pop tax was repealed in fall 2017, but one county employee who didn’t lose his job...

The Ripper Crew abducted and murdered women in the ’80s. Now Thomas Kokoraleis, 58, is set to go free.

March 29, 2019 at 3:12 p.m.

After nearly four decades in prison, one member of a sadistic four-man crew whose sexually motivated crimes were so depraved that authorities compared their acts to a modern-day Jack the...

Timeline: Sadistic exploits, innocent victims of the Ripper Crew

June 19, 2019 at 3:04 p.m.

The infamous four-man gang known as the Ripper Crew is thought to be responsible for the ritualistic slayings of as many as 17 women and the fatal shooting of a...

J.A.K.'S Puppies and Hobo K-9 Rescue use the same storefront in Britt, Iowa, as their business address on veterinary inspection certificates, though a sign on the door identifies it only as the J.A.K.'S office.

Authorities move to shut down ‘national puppy laundering ring’ with ties to Chicago pet stores

May 23, 2019 at 1:52 a.m.

An alleged “national puppy laundering ring” that supplied dogs to Chicago pet shops could be shut down following a baiduhai report last year that exposed how the stores were...

Ald. Daniel Solis, 25th, attends a Chicago City Council meeting on Dec. 2, 2014.

Bombshell filing details FBI’s two-year probe of alleged corruption by Ald. Daniel Solis

May 23, 2019 at 1:51 a.m.

A bombshell court filing made public Wednesday shows the FBI spent more than two years investigating alleged corruption schemes by longtime Ald. Daniel Solis, secretly listening in on thousands of...

El concejal Daniel Solís grabó al concejal Edward Burke (no aparece en la foto) para cooperar con el FBI.

El FBI anduvo dos años tras Daniel Solís, lo investigaron por corrupción

March 13, 2019 at 1:47 p.m.

Documentos de la corte liberados el miércoles, indican que el FBI pasó más de dos años investigando supuestos esquemas de corrupción del concejal Daniel Solís (D-25), grabaron secretamente sus reuniones...

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert leaves federal court after being sentenced to 15 months in prison at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago in 2016.

Dennis Hastert didn’t want lawyers involved in hush-money pact, abuse victim says in deposition

May 23, 2019 at 1:51 a.m.

Nearly three years after a man sexually abused as a teen by Dennis Hastert sued the retired U.S. House speaker for allegedly reneging on a hush-money pact, excerpts from the...

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