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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.

entertainment-and-culture
  • by david hall
Where to commemorate Juneteenth in Chicago: 'A celebration of freedom'

The June 19 federal and state holiday honors the day in 1865 when the last enslaved African Americans learned they had been freed — two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.