The Watchdogs
The city is always working to bring Pullman Innovations into compliance, “but they never get there,” one environmental group reported. The smell is “unbearable,” the 10th Ward alderperson said.
Austin accepted home improvement materials such as sump pumps and kitchen cabinets as kickbacks from a developer overseeing a $50 million project in her 34th Ward, prosecutors say. She allegedly then took action to benefit the developer and others.
Though Burke is out of prison, he’s still within the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Prisons. When that ends, he’s expected to begin serving a year of supervised release.
The feds’ bid to put the former head of the state’s largest utility behind bars comes a week after they asked for a sentence of more than 4½ years for John Hooker, a former top lobbyist for ComEd.
The former mayor of McCook admitted in 2020 that he shook down a restaurant owner and engaged in other extortion and bribery schemes.
Four generations of the Palumbos that have been involved in road construction have at some point faced government scrutiny for their business practices, dating from the 1960s until today.
“He’s really getting the shaft,” says the now-retired UIC researcher who brought Dr. Mahmood Ghassemi out of retirement to help lead unprecedented COVID trials.
Delvya Harris, 32, was a CHA manager at the Trumbull Park Homes in South Deering when she stole 50 money orders worth a total of $18,125 and put them in her personal account between December 2022 and March 2023, prosecutors said. She pleaded guilty to that crime as well as for filing fraudulent PPP claims.
John Hooker is the first of four former ComEd officials set to be sentenced in the coming weeks. Prosecutors say he, like Madigan, lied on the witness stand at trial.
Officer Carlos A. Baker has had more than a dozen complaints against him, records show.
Sebastian “Sam” Palumbo held “an ownership interest” until mid-2022 in “at least one” business associated with Builders Paving LLC, a major state contractor whose executives have included one of his daughters and her husband, according to a new court filing by the Illinois Department of Transportation.
Chester Weger, 86, died Sunday in Missouri. He was freed from prison for good conduct in 2020 after spending more than 60 years behind bars for killing of one of three women found beaten to death in Starved Rock State Park in LaSalle County.
The Sin City Deciples began as a Black club before integrating with whites and Hispanics. It had thousands of members — including a Gary, Ind., police chaplain, prosecutors say. Indictments have aimed to cripple its leadership, which prosecutors say includes Chicago-area members.
The police officer told the FBI he left guns at the Chicago home of Jawad Fakroune, and they were later seized during a raid of Fakroune’s home in New York, according to court records. Fakroune is charged with extorting the owner of a Lincoln Park restaurant.
Chester Weger, 86, was paroled in 2020 for good behavior in prison but his conviction wasn’t overturned at the time. He had spent more than 60 years in prison. After his release, his attorneys sought to overturn his conviction, saying attackers affiliated with the Chicago Outfit were likely the real killers.
Two people were charged in the investigation in the south suburbs, and authorities recovered more than 15 pounds of fentanyl and 25 guns, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.