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The sun sets over Loretto Hospital on June 2, 2021. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Florida man with ties to Loretto Hospital indicted in massive $233 million COVID fraud scheme

June 30, 2025 at 12:44 p.m.

A Florida man with ties to Loretto Hospital on Chicago's West Side has been charged in a massive conspiracy to fraudulently bill the federal government for more than $200 million...

Chicago man convicted of helping Islamic State spread violent message, encourage terrorist attacks

June 27, 2025 at 4:59 p.m.

Nearly seven years after the feds raided his Northwest Side home, a Chicago IT specialist was convicted Friday of helping the Islamic State terrorist group through a media campaign that...

Larry Hoover, in prison since 1973, faces the state parole board with his wife, Winndye Jenkins, at the Dixon Correctional Center on Feb. 7, 1995. (John Dziekan/baiduhai)

Apparently fake clemency letter for Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover sent to Gov. JB Pritzker

June 26, 2025 at 2:45 p.m.

Weeks after President Donald Trump commuted the federal life sentence of Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, an apparently fake clemency petition arrived at the offices of Gov. JB Pritzker.

Dr. Anosh Ahmed, former chief operating officer at Loretto Hospital, on April 30, 2020. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Indicted on fraud charges, ex-Loretto Hospital exec wages bizarre PR campaign from Dubai

June 24, 2025 at 4:10 p.m.

Anosh Ahmed, indicted former executive at Loretto Hospital, is running a PR blitz to rebuild his image from Dubai, where he apparently fled to avoid massive Chicago embezzlement case.

State Sen. Emil Jones III talks to reporters after his bribery trial ended in a mistrial at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse on April 24, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

State Sen. Emil Jones III to face retrial on bribery charges in 2026 — when he’ll also be up for reelection

June 20, 2025 at 3:52 p.m.

State Sen. Emil Jones III will face retrial on bribery charges in January 2026, a year when he'll also be up for reelection to a seat bequeathed in classic Illinois...

COVID-19 test specimens sat in garbage bags and boxes, sometimes for weeks, in the Chicago lab owned by Zishan Alvi. (U.S. attorney's office)

Lab owner gets 7 years in prison for $14 million scheme to falsify COVID tests at height of pandemic

June 18, 2025 at 6:14 p.m.

A south suburban man who ran a COVID-19 rapid testing site was sentenced Wednesday to 7 years in federal prison for falsifying tens of thousands of tests, telling anxious patients...

Dr. Anosh Ahmed, then-chief operating officer, at Loretto Hospital on April 30, 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Ex-Loretto hospital CFO hit with new charges alleging massive $290 million COVID testing fraud scheme

June 18, 2025 at 9:43 a.m.

A former top executive of Loretto Hospital on Chicago's West Side has been charged in a massive $290 million fraud scheme that allegedly used stolen patient data to bill nearly...

R. Kelly turns himself in at 1st District police headquarters in Chicago, Feb. 22, 2019. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Feds call R. Kelly’s claim of prison assassination plot ‘repugnant,’ say judge has no jurisdiction

June 16, 2025 at 3:13 p.m.

Federal prosecutors in Chicago on Monday called imprisoned singer R. Kelly a serial and unrepentant child molester and say his recent claims of a plot by prison officials to have...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago after being sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison and fined $2.5 million during his posttrial sentencing hearing on June 13, 2025. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

‘A tale of two Mike Madigans’: How the ex-Speaker’s trial testimony offered his life story but also route to 7 1/2-year sentence

June 16, 2025 at 10:05 a.m.

Months before a federal judge sentenced former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to prison on Friday, the once-mighty state Democratic Party chairman took the witness stand in his corruption trial...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse after being sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison and fined $2.5 million during his posttrial sentencing hearing June 13, 2025, in Chicago. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison after judge excoriates him for lying on witness stand

June 14, 2025 at 6:58 a.m.

Former House Speaker Michael J. Madigan was sentenced Friday to 7 1/2 years in prison in his corruption case, capping a stunning fall for the once powerful politician.

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