Investigation As Tons of Chicago Recycling Go to Dumps, a Private Firm Is Paid Twice Oct 10, 2018 12:00 AM A BGA probe finds residential recycling in Chicago is unequal depending on what company picks it up, and where.
Investigation Searchable Map: Is Your Blue Cart Recycling Tossed in a Landfill? Browse and search more than 500,000 recorded residential recycling contaminations. October 10, 2018
Investigation Decision Nears On Rauner Plan For Easing Coal Plant Pollution Limits The Rauner administration seeks to extend a lifeline to a $13 billion energy company, a plan that would lead to more pollution-related deaths and illnesses, opponents warn. October 2, 2018
Investigation Emanuel Decries Police Code of Silence. But City-Paid Expert Says It Doesn't Exist. An expert witness hired by the Emanuel administration has disputed in several lawsuits the existence of a code of silence among Chicago police to thwart misconduct allegations. The mayor claimed the opposite in the wake of the Laquan McDonald shooting. September 24, 2018
PolitiFact Fact-Check: Sessions Wrong Again on Chicago Murder Spike Cause The attorney general again blames a 2016 surge in gun-related murders on an agreement between the city and the ACLU to rein in police stops. But other big cities have imposed similar limits without murder spikes. October 23, 2018
PolitiFact Rauner, Pritzker Tax Disclosures Rich in Avoidance Illinois’ wealthiest candidates for governor have disclosed little when it comes to their personal finances. But what they have revealed indicates they leverage tax code flexibility out of reach for most. October 21, 2018
Perspective Doubek: Evaluating the State Supreme Court Candidate and Other Judges Remains a Tough Task October 22, 2018
Analysis Can You Save $12 Million by Merging the Comptroller and Treasurer? Maybe... October 15, 2018
Community What the Gov: If I Voted Republican in a Primary, Can I Vote Democrat in the General? October 19, 2018
Database Payroll Database Follow the money paid to public-sector employees throughout Illinois. August 4, 2016
Database Pension Database Follow the money paid to retired public-sector employees throughout Illinois. May 24, 2017
Explainer The Chicken Little Effect on Illinois’ Pension Crisis Years of unfulfilled warnings of imminent fiscal collapse due to pension debt have numbed Illinois voters to a still real threat and given politicians an election year escape hatch to avoid talk about the state’s most difficult problem. September 28, 2018
Explainer Elon Musk’s ‘Electric Skates’ to O’Hare Mired in Secrecy, Skepticism The Better Government Association has filed a lawsuit against the city for disclosure of public records behind its $1 billion deal with Musk’s company. August 15, 2018
Explainer Illinois Politics Becomes the Plaything of the Rich This year’s race for governor is the King Kong vs. Godzilla of big-money politics, rendering small donors irrelevant and impacting races down the ballot as well. July 26, 2018
Follow-Up State Panel Rejects Rauner Plan to Ease Coal Plant Pollution Rules The Illinois Pollution Control Board proposed an alternative to governor’s call for easing emission rules on Downstate coal power plants. The new plan loosens controls, but not as much as Rauner sought. October 4, 2018
Follow-Up Rauner’s EPA Drafts Compromise Plan To Distribute Volkswagen Settlement Funds Bending to pressures from public health and environmental groups, state proposes electric car charging stations, cleaner school buses and public transit money to reduce air pollution. August 29, 2018
