Illinois plastic surgeon with 8 patient deaths faces another license suspension By Christy Gutowski October 6, 2026 at 11:14 a.m. The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs temporarily suspended Dr. Ayoub Sayeg’s medical license,...
Illinois, Chicago, Cook County got $11B in pandemic aid but there were gaps in oversight and transparency By Dan Petrella September 13, 2026 at 5:00 a.m. The Tribune and the University of Chicago's Mansueto Institute examined how Illinois, Chicago and Cook...
Illinois ignores rules and red flags as ‘servant leader’ runs up $100M state tab, then closes 2 hospitals By Joe Mahr August 30, 2026 at 5:00 a.m. West Suburban and Weiss Memorial's collapse illustrates what can go wrong in a state that...
Smoke detectors save lives, but Chicago has slow-walked efforts to toughen rules By Alex Nitkin June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m. Just before midnight on a drizzly evening last June, Nicolas Mendoza parked his truck in...
Fires continue to kill people in unsafe buildings as Chicago ignores problems with its inspection system By Alex Nitkin June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m. Larry Burns had been planning a wedding reception last May in Mississippi and was looking...
The federal government is investigating an Illinois school that often had students with disabilities arrested By baiduhai June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m. The U.S. Department of Education has opened a civil rights investigation into a tiny Illinois...
Police are still ticketing students in Illinois schools. A new bill would make that illegal. By baiduhai June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m. A new bill in the Illinois House aims to stop schools from working with police...
Michigan man charged after arranging to meet what he thought was an underage girl for sex, Lake County authorities say By Steve Sadin June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m. A sting operation by the Criminal Investigations Division of the Lake County sheriff's office resulted...
Ethics board sends Lightfoot campaign complaints to watchdogs By A.D. Quig June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m. The Chicago Board of Ethics decided Monday more thorough investigations needed to be done before...
Many 911 calls deserve an ‘immediate’ police response. But in thousands of cases, officers didn’t arrive for more than an hour. By Annie Sweeney June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m. The Sunday sun was an hour or so from rising over the lake as the...
Illinois failed to take action even though it knew 3M had been polluting the Mississippi River with forever chemicals for more than a decade By Michael Hawthorne June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m. By the late 2000s, it was clear that forever chemicals were in the blood of...
The Price Kids Pay: School for children with disabilities calls police on its students every other day By Jennifer Smith Richards September 6, 2024 at 11:05 a.m. On the last street before leaving Jacksonville, there's a dark brick one-story building that the...
State police investigating death at Westville Correctional Facility By Post-Tribune June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m. On Thursday, detectives from the Indiana State Police Criminal Investigations Division at the Lowell Post...