Aspira Inc. of Illinois got $27 million from the state to build a modern school just 11 years ago. Now the nonprofit has declared bankruptcy and wants to sell the building for $11 million — and pocket...

The owners of multiple South Side funeral homes are under a microscope after state officials discovered they had been mismanaging human remains. La...

While the company is on the hook for about $400 million in costs over the next two years to complete its permanent complex at 777 W. Chicago Ave., Bally’s still isn’t breaking even at its temporary ca...

The macabre discovery of dozens of unrefrigerated, decomposing bodies at a South Side funeral home is prompting legislative calls for tighter government regulation of an industry that has operated lar...

Defense attorney Kevin Riach alleges that just four days after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents, that Homeland Security Investigations launched Operation Puppet Master. The agency cou...

Aspira Inc. of Illinois got $27 million from the state to build a modern school just 11 years ago. Now the nonprofit has declared bankruptcy and wants to sell the building for $11 million — and pocket...

I submit for your consideration two deeply reported stories by WBEZ Chicago reporter Kristen Schorsch told with trust, care and accountability. In the past year, Kristen embedded in a community on Chi

There’s very little information online about Gregory Bovino’s background, his experience, or his rise to overnight prominence. So our team went digging – to his hometown in North Carolina, and to Cali...

Emanuel spokesman Matt McGrath said Chicago had pulled out of the joint bid and would not host any World Cup games.

Ten months after Congress voted to rescind federal funds for public media, the former PBS affiliate at Eastern Illinois University will cease its televised broadcasting service today, May 15. For more than 40 years, WEIU has served eastern Illinois as a public television and radio station and a training ground for student journalists at Eastern Illinois University.

Mr. Sianis was happy to see the "Curse of the Billy Goat" his uncle placed on the Cubs broken when the team won the World Series in 2016.

On Tuesday, Judge Donald Suriano handed down a not guilty verdict after finding the evidence in the 2024 case only amounted to “suspicion of intoxication.”

The 911 caller and his partner told the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ that Samantha Steele, a Democratic member of the Cook County Board of Review, tried to flee the scene of the Nov. 11 crash before pol...

Board of Review commissioner Samantha Steele is challenged by Liz Nicholson, while commissioner George Cardenas is opposed by parks activist Juanita Irizarry.

The three siblings had fended for themselves for nearly four weeks on the Southwest Side. Isabel Conde, 27, couldn’t find adults in their lives to take them in. So she did it herself.

Βαθιά θλίψη έχει προκαλέσει στην ομογένεια του Σικάγο ο θάνατος του 38χρονου αστυνομικού John Bartholomew, ο οποίος έπεσε νεκρός από τα πυρά του 26χρονου Alfonso Talley. Το αιματηρό περιστατικό σημειώ...

The Chicago Headline Club is thrilled to announce the winners of the Watchdog Award for Public Interest and the A-Mark Prize for Dogged Reporting and Editing.

Here's a look at what led to CPS Inspector General Nicholas Schuler's review of CEO Forrest Claypool and how it has played out.

‘Say More’ provides a first listen to the new podcast “Becoming Bovino” – about the origins of the Border Patrol Commander-at-large Gregory Bovino.

As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...

Judge Rubén Castillo, chair of the Illinois Accountability Commission, made the call to action during his remarks at the commission's final hearing Tuesday. The commission was tasked with examining th...

15 South American migrants and asylum seekers deported from the U.S. to the DRC are now living in uncertainty in a country an with ongoing armed conflict, where they have no ties.

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Juan Rangel — the former $275,000-a-year leader of the United Neighborhood Organization and its charter-school network — will pay a $10,000 fine

The SEC announces settled charges in a municipal bond fraud case against the former executive of a Chicago charter school operator.

The news from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comes less than three weeks after oral argument and will likely prompt a bid by Madigan to the U.S. Supreme Court.

How elderly Americans amassed disproportionate wealth and power

Alphanso Talley, 26, who was released on parole early this year for a 2023 aggravated battery to a peace officer conviction, was charged with murder, attempted murder and a slew of additional charges,...

Alphanso Talley, 26, who was released on parole early this year for a 2023 aggravated battery to a peace officer conviction, was charged with murder, attempted murder and a slew of additional charges,...

More than 80 independent bookstores will participate in the annual Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl on Independent Bookstore Day. Stores will offer special discounts and planned activities during the crawl...