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Leo Leyva takes a portion of his GED test on June 28, 2017, in Chicago. He is close to earning his GED and hopes to study to be a pharmacist.

Hidden toll of Chicago’s gun violence: $447 million in hospital bills over seven years

December 17, 2018 at 12:04 p.m.

The charges started racking up the moment Annette Johnson arrived at Mount Sinai Hospital with a gunshot wound to her left forearm. Doctors sliced open Johnson's arm and installed a...

Kids poisoned by lead in CHA housing; landlords still got paid

June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m.

As private landlords increasingly take over the government's role of housing low-income families, dozens of children have been poisoned by brain-damaging lead while living in homes and apartments declared safe...

Witnesses at a dog park confirmed that an off-duty police officer swore at Tangela Gatz and her husband and used a racial slur during an encounter in 2014. IPRA ended its inquiry in February 2015 and called for a 15-day suspension, which has yet to be served by the officer.

Lengthy grievance process allows Chicago cops to delay punishment for years

June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m.

Two Chicago police officers standing near their squad car, with two men handcuffed in the back seat, claimed to see nothing. But onlookers saw so much that they called 911...

Locke Bowman,executive director of the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law.

More than a dozen Chicago cops escaped punishment after officials lost track of their cases

June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m.

In a stunning breakdown of the city's police disciplinary system, Chicago officers found at fault for misconduct have escaped punishment for years because authorities lost track of their cases, a...

Contractors hired by Chicago Public Schools test drinking water for lead in June.

Bill to require school lead testing stalls in Springfield

May 22, 2019 at 10:55 p.m.

Despite renewed national attention to the dangers of lead plumbing, most schools and day care centers still aren't required to guarantee the safety of drinking water provided to children who...

New Year’s babies named for World Series champs

June 6, 2018 at 11:35 a.m.

They are the littlest Cubs fans. Wrigley Rose wasn't supposed to arrive for another few weeks, but she came into this world with two distinctions: a World Series-worthy name and...

Disgraced ex-Special Operations Section Officer Jerome Finnigan, who led the list with 157 complaints during his two decades on the force, leaves the Cook County Criminal Court Building in Chicago in 2006.

Over 125K complaints against more than 25K Chicago cops

June 14, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

A small group of Chicago police officers have amassed more than 100 complaints each over their careers, including notoriously corrupt cops who wound up in prison but also others whose...

Ortiz Glaze, center, stands with attorneys Russell Ainsworth and Ruth Brown at Loevy & Loevy offices in Chicago during a news conference April 30, 2014, to announce a lawsuit against the Chicago police for shooting him while unarmed the year before.

In 14 cases, no gun is found after Chicago police shot someone they said was armed

June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m.

A flashlight. A wrench. An L-shaped object under a towel. Even a Chicago Fire Department badge in a wallet. All allegedly have been mistaken for guns in recent cases in...

People flee the scene near New York's World Trade Center after terrorists crashed two planes into the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001.

9/11 loans were lifeline for Illinois small businesses: ‘It saved our company’

June 14, 2018 at 6:52 a.m.

After the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the U.S. government approved low-interest loans to more than 140 Illinois businesses that said the fallout from Sept. 11 took...

Laura Rios is seen at her home in Chicago on June 21, 2016. She is the mother of Pedro Rios, who was fatally shot at age 14 by Chicago police after a foot chase on July 4, 2014.

Third of police shootings started with foot chases, Tribune analysis finds

June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m.

Levail Smith had just cracked open a can of beer outside a Rogers Park laundromat on the Fourth of July two years ago when a Chicago police tactical officer pulled...

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