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Projects With Madigan Ties Went to the Front of the Line in State’s Massive Rebuild Illinois List

The $45 billion statewide capital plan includes $4 billion in pet projects added by a handful of the state’s most powerful politicians, including the former speaker.
Jan 21, 2022 5:30 AM
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Cabrini-Green: A History of Broken Promises

Transforming Chicago’s most famous public housing complex will cost taxpayers $2 billion. It also came with often-unkept promises of jobs, city contracts and homes for those forced from the neighborhood.
Dec 15, 2021 6:00 AM
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Cabrini-Green Residents Were Promised 2,500 Construction Jobs. They Got 40

To quell a rising controversy 25 years ago that threatened to derail his grand plan to raze the public housing complex, Mayor Richard M. Daley made promises to the residents he was kicking out — including jobs.
Dec 15, 2021 6:00 AM
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The Costly Toll of Dead-End Drug Arrests

In Chicago, thousands of drug possession arrests are tossed out every year because of an unwritten rule in the courts, a Better Government Association/Chicago Sun-Times investigation has found. The cost to taxpayers? Millions. To those arrested? Jobs, housing, freedom.
Dec 3, 2021 5:30 AM
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Oregon Is First State to Ticket Narcotics Users, but New Reform Has Yet To Live Up To Promise

In Illinois, possession of even trace amounts of heroin residue is a felony. But in Oregon, it’s not a crime at all any more. Instead, people caught with drugs get a ticket. Oregon’s new drug reform is keeping users out of jail — but the goal of getting them help for their addictions has been elusive.
Dec 3, 2021 5:30 AM
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Kim Foxx’s Ex-Trainer Caught Up in ‘Unending Cycle’ of Drug Arrests

Drug issue hits every corner of Cook County. ‘It breaks my heart,’ the state’s attorney says.
Dec 3, 2021 5:29 AM
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Insurance Firms Reap Billions in Profits While Doctors Get Stiffed for Serving the Poor

Milking Medicaid: State-contracted insurance firms balk at paying frontline medical providers, threatening the viability of leading hospitals and clinics, and imperiling Illinois' entire Medicaid program.
Nov 8, 2021 12:00 PM
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Illinois’ $16 Billion Health Program Is Riddled with Industry Ties and Potential Conflicts of Interest

Milking Medicaid: The state health care agency has a revolving door for executives from the insurance industry.
Nov 8, 2021 12:00 PM
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Pipeline to Chicago Could Make Joliet Mayor the New Suburban Water Czar

Joliet Mayor Bob O’Dekirk is balancing his sometimes-controversial history with an ambitious plan to buy Lake Michigan water from Chicago and resell it throughout the region.
Sep 16, 2021 1:00 PM
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No Ransom Paid, but Illinois AG Office Is Spending More Than $2.5 Million on Hacker Attack

In his first in-depth interview since the April breach at the state’s top law enforcement agency, Raoul acknowledges the hack is “embarrassing.”
Jul 29, 2021 2:30 PM

Investigations

Projects With Madigan Ties Went to the Front of the Line in State’s Massive Rebuild Illinois List

Cabrini-Green: A History of Broken Promises

Cabrini-Green Residents Were Promised 2,500 Construction Jobs. They Got 40

The Costly Toll of Dead-End Drug Arrests

Oregon Is First State to Ticket Narcotics Users, but New Reform Has Yet To Live Up To Promise

Kim Foxx’s Ex-Trainer Caught Up in ‘Unending Cycle’ of Drug Arrests

Insurance Firms Reap Billions in Profits While Doctors Get Stiffed for Serving the Poor

Illinois’ $16 Billion Health Program Is Riddled with Industry Ties and Potential Conflicts of Interest

Pipeline to Chicago Could Make Joliet Mayor the New Suburban Water Czar

No Ransom Paid, but Illinois AG Office Is Spending More Than $2.5 Million on Hacker Attack

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