A proposal from the Illinois attorney general's office to allow camera monitoring in nursing homes is drawing cautious support from elder care advocates, who have raised concerns about the privacy of seniors.
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Despite statutes requiring license suspension and revocation, Chicago-area drunken drivers regularly keep their licenses through plea deals cut by suburbs.
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The shooting of an elderly man in May was not unlike many other gang-related shootings across Chicago — except in this case, the suspected triggerman was on probation and working as a paid FBI informant.
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State regulators this week suspended the license of an Evanston appraiser involved in a $1.7 million roller rink purchase by south suburban Markham from its city attorney.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel has paid back the city for more than $14,000 in travel expenses after a Tribune story found he spent taxpayer money on trips in which he tapped well-heeled donors for campaign contributions.
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Magazine cutouts of Michael Jackson, stylish young rockers and characters from the "Twilight" series cover the walls of Stephanie DiCara's bedroom in North Barrington, where a nurse watches closely over the ventilator that keeps the young woman alive.
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A former Chicago transportation manager and his longtime friend both pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal bribery charges in an alleged $2 million scheme to rig the contract for the city's red light camera program.
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As furniture makers move to phase out toxic, ineffective flame retardants, the chemical industry is waging an aggressive last-ditch campaign to preserve a lucrative market that reaches into virtually every American home.
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A suburban man recently arrested on child pornography charges worked for years at a middle school even after he had been ordered to get sex offender treatment, a Tribune review of district and court records shows.
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A Chicago man fraudulently raised $160 million from Chinese nationals who invested in his purported plan to build a convention center complex with hotels near O'Hare International Airport, the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago announced.
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Polish authorities have returned a fugitive to Chicago to face reckless homicide charges in a 2004 car crash that killed two people. He was one of the criminal suspects featured in the Tribune's 2011 "Fugitives from Justice" investigation.
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The powerhouses of college athletics have so much money from ticket sales, television contracts and other sources that they don't need student fees. But that's not the case for many schools in Division I, including some in Illinois.
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Chicago's red light camera scandal deepened with the federal indictment of a former Redflex Traffic Systems CEO on charges she and a top City Hall manager conspired to rig the camera business for a decade.
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A Tribune investigation of a March 14 chase that ended in tragedy found that the Calumet Park officer who initiated it had been fired from or forced out of five of the seven most recent departments for which he worked.
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Update: The disciplinary action comes more than four years after a joint investigation by the Tribune and ProPublica focused attention on Dr. Michael Reinstein's prolific prescribing of a dangerous antipsychotic drug in nursing homes and mental health facilities.
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Multiple instructors authorized to teach people how to tote guns under a new state program are police officers with histories of making questionable decisions about when to use force, a Tribune review has found.
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Illinois school districts have employed hundreds of educators to teach everything from science to special education even though they lacked proper credentials in those subjects, a Tribune investigation has found.
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Every year, Tinley Park officials spend tens of thousands of dollars printing three newsletters that tout the town's virtues.
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One flame retardant is linked to cancer and was voluntarily taken out of children's pajamas in the 1970s after researchers discovered it mutated DNA.
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A state task force formed in response to a Tribune investigation is recommending sweeping reforms to address absenteeism in Chicago elementary schools.
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As Gov. Pat Quinn's aides sought to pump up an anti-violence program ahead of his November 2010 election bid, they added $3.76 million in federal disaster recovery funds from Hurricane Ike to make loans to small businesses.
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City Hall plans to start sending out letters to at least 9,000 drivers who received red light camera citations during suspicious ticket spikes.
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Orangelo Payne alleged that law enforcement teamed up with probation officers to illegally enter his apartment
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Former employee says he detailed how city official coached executives on how to get contract, also answered questions about yellow light times
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Facing criticism for its oversight of the city's red light camera program, City Hall said that at least 9,000 drivers will get a chance at a refund of $100 fines issued during suspicious ticket spikes.
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A group of Chicago aldermen has asked City Hall's top watchdog to probe the city's red light ticketing program.
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Analysis shows appeals of tickets received during spikes could have been successful
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Analysis of 4 million violations recorded since 2007 reveals suspicious patterns at dozens of intersections, raises questions about system's management
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Documents give tally of shipments that U.S. official warns could be 'imminent hazard'
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Some top providers are not specialists in mental health
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Tribune investigation finds nearly 100 cases of legislators trying to speed up process or change its results
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A year ago, former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s attorneys said his family was in "significant financial peril" as he and his wife, Sandi, awaited sentencing for looting $750,000 from his campaign coffers.
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At least six Illinois hospitals are at risk of having their Medicare payments docked this fall.
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Board president who was aghast in 2011 expects spending to drop next year as high-paid veterans retire and latest contract reduces salaries of new hires
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South Side nonprofit got anti-violence grant despite years of financial missteps.
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Companies quietly skirt LaSalle County ban and are poised to make millions
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Dr. David Heimbach's dramatic testimony about babies burned to death in furniture fires helped convince lawmakers they shouldn't scale back use of flame retardants. But the stories weren't true.
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Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans has hired a well-known law firm to investigate allegations that the court’s probation department has improperly teamed up on searches of probationers’ homes with Chicago police and the FBI.
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Cook County probation officers have for years quietly teamed up with law enforcement to go into probationers' homes without warrants, leading to questionable and illegal searches, the Tribune has found.
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Leaded gasoline is such a well-known scourge that automobile fuel made with the brain-damaging additive is still sold in only six countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Myanmar, North Korea and Yemen.
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John Bills was a top Madigan operative with family links to the mob who partied on the field with World Series champs. Now he's at the center of the feds' red light bribery case.
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The former head of Chicago's red light camera program was arrested Wednesday in a $2 million bribery scandal and charged by federal prosecutors with plotting to steer the contract to Redflex Traffic Systems before the first ticket was ever issued in 2003.
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State gets permission from the feds to ditch No Child Left Behind rules
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Construction begins in earnest this year on a multibillion-dollar stretch of highway in DuPage County amid a growing sense that its potential to become a long-promised western route to O'Hare International Airport will fall far short of expectations.
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Rows of new squad cars sit in a parking lot in Springfield, waiting to be put out onto state highways. Waiting. And waiting.
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Nonprofit set up by late comedy star spending more on salaries and fees than programs
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State cancels contract, withholds $1.1 million payment over security flaws, other bugs
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If Rockie Douglas' probation agents in Wisconsin had known he'd been charged with multiple crimes in Illinois, he might have been in prison instead of allegedly causing a crash that killed a Chicago boy.
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Records show mother's nearly yearlong quest to shield Briana Valle from Erick Maya
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Sheriff's deputies helped the state comptroller's office force an audit of the city's books in the wake of news reports on insider deals.
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$88,000 goes to firm linked to mayor's son to manage suburb's Twitter account with mostly fake followers
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A new boss is named at the Cook County probation department after the Tribune reported on errors in tracking convicts.
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