Investigation

Catholic nuns ramp up fight against Stone Park municipal government and local strip club (shown in photo, behind nun) that opened last year adjacent to convent. A lawsuit is in the works.

Village board wants to allow video gaming at taxpayer-owned retirement home for low-income senior citizens. Government regulators are now having second thoughts.

Education reformers, including charter-school advocates and out-of-state billionaires, are donating money to various Illinois campaigns. Plus: One principal is getting schooled.

Employee of city animal pound hit with 20-day suspension for alleged dog-choking incident, but other problems persist at taxpayer-funded facility.

Retired Illinois congressman getting rich working for special interests that once sought his help in U.S. House – and he’s not the only member of his family getting paid.

Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown donates to campaign fund of judicial candidate – who happens to be Brown’s inspector general. Plus, Brown’s not alone in moonlighting.

Despite the emerging trend in statewide school consolidation and mergers, Cook County schools are staying clear of that streamlining effort and that’s paying off for some school superintendents, a BGA Rescuing Illinois examination finds.

Raising new ethical questions, the BGA and FOX 32 find Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown solicited underlings for a private side business. And we discover another curiosity involving her family and Gov. Quinn’s scandal-plagued grant program.

Clout-heavy IDOT administrator leaves agency amid scrutiny over patronage hiring under Gov. Quinn, but officials won’t explain what’s going on.

Mayor Emanuel pledged not to accept campaign donations from city vendors, but he still takes money from employees of those vendors, which has helped pack his war chest.