Investigations | Luxury home or vacant lot? Cook County assessor misclassifies hundreds of properties, missing $444M in one year alone By Alex Nitkin August 16, 2024 at 4:42 p.m. An investigation by the Illinois Answers Project and the Chicago Tribune found Assessor Fritz Kaegi’s...
Politics | How we reported on Cook County assessment errors By Alex Nitkin August 4, 2024 at 3:11 p.m. Reporters from Illinois Answers Project and the Chicago Tribune collected and analyzed thousands of points...
Crime and Public Safety | A young mother’s murder horrified central Illinois. Decades later, the family convicted in her death says DNA proves they’re innocent. By Jonathan Bullington June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m. The ex-husband and in-laws of Karyn Hearn Slover were convicted in her death, but the...
About Us | Tribune’s ‘Stalled Justice’ series on Cook County court delays wins national award for journalistic fairness By Chicago Tribune June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m. "Stalled Justice," a Tribune series exposing dysfunction in the Cook County courts, has won the...
News | Keeping watch: Chaperones may offer one way to prevent sexual abuse during medical exams By Lisa Schencker June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m. The Tribune recently exposed how several large Illinois health systems allowed health care workers accused...
News | Former patients of Fabio Ortega say Endeavor Health failed to protect them from an abusive doctor By Lisa Schencker June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m. Endeavor Health, formerly NorthShore, allowed Dr. Fabio Ortega to keep working with female patients despite...
News | Medical misconduct: Read the investigation on sexual abuse by providers By Lisa Schencker June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m. Over the course of a yearlong investigation, the Tribune found that well-known Illinois health systems...
News | Failure to protect: Flawed state oversight lets doctors accused of abuse continue to see patients By Emily Hoerner June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m. Doctors accused of sexual misconduct were able to keep practicing – sometimes for years –...
Crime and Public Safety | New report critiques Cook County’s experimental neighborhood courts, recommends reforms before expansion By Madeline Buckley June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m. A new study advised the county that it should take on a series of reforms...
Health | Patients reported sexual abuse by medical providers. Health care systems let them keep working. By Lisa Schencker June 14, 2024 at 6:42 p.m. Over the course of a yearlong investigation, the Tribune found that well-known Illinois health systems...