Investigation CHA Seniors File Complaint Over Missing Grab Bars The grab bar complaint is the latest in a series of grievances by CHA residents about the agency’s failure to keep residents safe. Jul 16, 2018 8:30 PM
Investigation Water District Approves $95,000 to Former Executive Director Following Unexplained Resignation Executive stepped down at the end of June after sanitary district’s board conducted investigation. Jul 12, 2018 5:15 PM
Investigation Clean Dumps May Not Be So Clean, State Suit Charges Quarries doubling as demolition waste sites threaten to contaminate local water sources, Attorney General Madigan and others warn. Jun 29, 2018 6:00 AM
Investigation Explore CHA Elevator Data Use this database to check the status of CHA residents’ elevators — failed inspections, violations, 911 calls and maintenance records. Jun 18, 2018 4:00 PM
Investigation CHA Tenants, In Their Own Words Hear from CHA tenants who say a functioning elevator is more than a luxury. Jun 7, 2018 6:00 AM
Investigation ‘It’s Not Something That Should Be Left to Politics’ — Tenants’ Lawyer The Chicago Housing Authority paid millions of dollars to private contractors on building upgrades without addressing an aging fleet of elevators, Part Three of a BGA/WBEZ investigation finds. Jun 6, 2018 6:00 AM
Investigation ‘Just Because an Elevator Fails an Inspection Doesn’t Mean It Is Dangerous’ — City Hall A citywide program to keep elevators safe is broken when it comes to public housing for the city’s poor, Part Two of a BGA/WBEZ investigation reveals. Jun 5, 2018 6:00 AM
Investigation Trapped: Neglected Elevators Put Chicago’s Public Housing Residents at Risk Unsafe elevators, shoddy record keeping and failed oversight at the CHA result in tenants, mostly elderly, living in fear of their own buildings, Part One of a BGA/WBEZ investigation finds. Jun 4, 2018 6:00 AM
Investigation Illinois’ Plan For $109 Million Haul From Volkswagen Emissions Scandal Draws Fire Critics say the state is keeping the public in the dark and trying to speed a process that they fear may ultimately benefit corporate interests more than people sickened by air pollution. Mar 30, 2018 12:25 PM
Investigation Strapped for Cash, Suburban Library Chooses Hiatus over Consolidation Residents in south suburban Riverdale get locked out of their public library for three months even while continuing to pay taxes to fund it. The secretive library board refuses to open its books and fails to comply with public records and open meetings law. Mar 16, 2018 6:00 AM
Investigation 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
Investigation A Veteran Cook County Judge Has Been Repeatedly Blocked from Hearing Sex Offense Cases. Here’s Why. An unprecedented investigation of court data finds systematic effort to keep Judge James Linn from deciding sex charges after a controversial ruling he made years ago. Oct 22, 2020 12:01 PM
Investigation City Says About $600 Million More Is Needed to Finish Cabrini-Green’s Transformation With a public price tag already exceeding $300 million, the 23-year-long effort to rejuvenate the area around the former public housing project is set to take at least 12 more years and could approach a total of nearly $1 billion. Jun 15, 2021 12:00 PM