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...
The Price Kids Pay: Join our free event and learn about ticketing of students in Illinois schools By baiduhai June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m. Across Illinois, police and schools have been working together to ticket thousands of students each...
Racial disparities in ticketing, other school discipline revealed at suburban high school District 211 By Jennifer Smith Richards June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m. At Illinois' largest high school district, Black and Latino students were suspended more often than...
Tribune investigation: Chicago’s sewage district fails to warn gardeners free sludge contains toxic forever chemicals By Michael Hawthorne June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m. Bags of the earthy muck are labeled organic or natural. Sometimes it is billed as...
How to reduce your exposure to PFAS: Avoid microwave popcorn, water-resistant makeup, nonstick pans By Michael Hawthorne June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m. PFAS are per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances used for decades in firefighting foam and to make...
Climate change is turning air conditioning into a matter of life and death. But government help is lacking. By Sarah Macaraeg June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m. If it were up to Jacques Wallace, no Chicagoan would find a loved one dead...
Sewage sludge contaminated with toxic forever chemicals spread on thousands of acres of Chicago-area farmland By Michael Hawthorne June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m. Ray Dettmering didn't think twice after a salesman knocked on his door a decade ago...
Researchers urge doctors to test patients for toxic forever chemicals, which could cost Americans nearly $63 billion in hidden health costs By Michael Hawthorne June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m. Physicians should test millions of Americans for toxic forever chemicals, the nation's leading scientific advisory...
School ticketing data update shows racial disparity at Naperville North By Jennifer Smith Richards June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m. Newly obtained police records from five Chicago suburbs offer additional details about students getting ticketed...
More than 8 million Illinoisans get drinking water from a utility where forever chemicals have been detected, Tribune investigation finds By Michael Hawthorne June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m. Something as simple as drinking tap water is exposing millions of Illinoisans to toxic chemicals...
Persistent farmer whose cows died from a mysterious disease helped unravel the origin of toxic chemicals By Michael Hawthorne June 14, 2024 at 6:45 p.m. If Wilbur Earl Tennant's cows hadn't died from a mysterious wasting disease during the 1990s,...