Todd Lighty

A former director of the Illinois prison system was indicted on federal corruption charges Thursday, accused of accepting kickbacks from two lobbyists whose clients held multi-million dollar contracts to provide...

A who's who of Chicago political power brokers and the job seekers they sponsored was unveiled Monday by federal prosecutors in the City Hall corruption trial. The list of more...

Federal prosecutors made fresh accusations Tuesday that aides to Mayor Richard Daley destroyed computer evidence of hiring fraud, with city officials allegedly joking about tossing computers into Lake Michigan to...

Federal agents are investigating allegations of abuse by staff members at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, sources said Thursday. Ross Rice, FBI spokesman, confirmed the Chicago office began...

City Clerk James Laski demanded cash bribes to steer city trucking business to a lifelong friend, then coached and cajoled him to lie to investigators in a series of meetings...

Emboldened by the federal investigation into City Hall hiring, independent Latino candidates are challenging state lawmakers supported by the controversial Hispanic Democratic Organization. The March Democratic primary is shaping up...

Linda Will, the mother of deceased Northwestern football player Rashidi Wheeler, has fired her lawyers--again. Will has terminated the services of lawyers handling her case five times, threatening to do...

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday expanded their investigation into the hiring practices of Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration, delivering a subpoena to the job-rich Illinois Department of Transportation that demanded employment records...

Federal investigators have made a sweeping demand for three years of hiring and other personnel records from the state's child welfare agency, sources said on Tuesday, the second time in...

City Planning Commissioner Denise Casalino, once a rising star at City Hall, resigned Tuesday in the wake of questions about her role in real estate projects involving her husband, a...