Tuesday, January 20, 2026

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the-watchdogs
  • by david hall
CTA Second Chance trainees say they faced discipline after complaining of burns from caustic cleaners

The transit workers union wants the agency to stop using the $15.80-an-hour apprentices on crews who scrub exteriors of L cars using an acid-based cleaner.

the-watchdogs
  • by david hall
Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard federal probe is looking into work of contractor who faces prison for bribery

The south suburb paid more than $200,000 to O.A.K.K. Construction Co., a Summit business whose president Alex Nitchoff awaits sentencing after pleading guilty in January to bribing a Cook County assessor's office employee for property tax breaks.

crime
  • by david hall
4 shot, wounded in West Pullman on Far South Side

Three women and a man were shot at 119th Street and Michigan Avenue in West Pullman about 6:30 p.m. Thursday.

politics
  • by david hall
Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot to teach at University of Michigan this fall

Lightfoot, who graduated from the University of Michigan in 1988, will be joining the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy in Ann Arbor as a visiting professor.