Investigations – Page 16

Dr. Ayoub Sayeg arrives at a court hearing at the Daley Center in the Loop on Aug. 19, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

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,...

Gov. JB Pritzker joined Mayor Lori Lightfoot, right, Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle, second from left, and public health experts in updating residents on March 12, 2020, in the early days of the pandemic. Illinois, Chicago and Cook County received $11 billion through the American Rescue Plan Act amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A Tribune-University of Chicago Mansueto Institute analysis revealed few efforts to identify potential waste and abuse of that money. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

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...

Weiss Memorial Hospital, in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood, was closed in August 2025 after federal regulators cut off Medicare funding over safety issues. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

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...

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...

A Bradley Police Department ticket book used early this year at Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School.

Free virtual event: How student journalists can investigate police ticketing at high schools

By baiduhai

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

Schools in Illinois are banned from using fines to discipline students. But in recent years,...

Jan and Helena Tarasewicz, center left, grieve at the funeral Mass for three members of the Janus family, including their daughter Theresa, at St. Hyacinth Roman Catholic Church in Chicago in 1982.

The Tylenol murders: Read the Tribune investigation

By Christy Gutowski

May 30, 2025 at 2:46 p.m.

Both the series and the podcast start by recounting the chaotic 24-hour period on Sept....

Diane Elsroth of Peekskill, New York, shown in a 1980 high school yearbook photo, died at age 23 in February 1986 after taking a cyanide-laced Extra-Strength Tylenol capsule.

Tragedy, then triumph: How Johnson & Johnson made sure Tylenol survived the Tylenol murders

By Christy Gutowski

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

Shortly after sunrise on Sept. 30, 1982, Dr. Edmund Donoghue walked into the Cook County...

Chicago police allowed the media to photograph many items recovered from Roger Arnold's home, including several unlicensed handguns, a rifle and various books, magazines and manuals.

The Tylenol murders: Timeline of key events before and after the 1982 poisonings

By Christy Gutowski

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

For decades, the Tylenol murders have been one of the nation's most terrifying mysteries.

IDHS Secretary Grace Hou speaks alongside Gov. J.B. Pritzker during a news conference in Chicago on Sept. 14, 2022.

Pritzker’s oversight of social services questioned amid abuse allegations at Choate mental health facility

By A.D. Quig

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

In a small southern Illinois town earlier this year, a 58-year-old employee at the Choate...

FBI agents carry out boxes after searching the apartment of James Lewis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2009. Documents reviewed by the Tribune show investigators found a four-page, handwritten timeline of the Lewises' movements in the weeks before and after the Tylenol killings.

The Tylenol murders, part 6: A sting operation turned up the heat on a ‘perfect cold case’

By Christy Gutowski

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

Nearly a quarter-century after the Tylenol murders, retired FBI agent Roy Lane Jr. received an...

Blake, center, is hugged by his friend Keyarra as he and his mother, Jennifer Fee, at right, wait to attend an administration hearing in March at the Tazewell County Courthouse in Pekin. Both Blake and his cousin Anna, left, had received a ticket at Morton High School. Anna was accompanied by her mother, Becky Fee, second from right.

The Price Kids Pay: Ticketed at school

By Jennifer Smith Richards

February 4, 2025 at 9:49 a.m.

Thousands of Illinois students a year are receiving tickets at school for conduct that violates...

The 3M plant in Cordova, Illinois, on May 10, 2022. 3M is one of the chief manufacturers of PFAS and has known since 1975 that forever chemicals had been detected in blood banks around the United States, according to industry records uncovered during lawsuits.

Forever chemicals: They’re in your drinking water and likely your food. Read the Tribune investigation

By Michael Hawthorne

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

Something as simple as drinking tap water is exposing millions of Illinoisans to toxic chemicals...

Photos: The Tylenol drawings of James Lewis

By Marianne Mather

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

This James Lewis drawing depicts a way to use a test tube and paper to...