The Watchdogs
Rosallie Corvite ended up with one of the lightest punishments of the 16 people charged after federal regulators closed Washington Federal Bank for Savings in 2017, days after the bank’s CEO, John Gembara was found dead in a customer’s home.
Tabb is one of 14 Chicago officers accused of sexual assault in the past decade with at least one other alleged incident of sexual misconduct. The cases reveal how the department failed to vigorously investigate such allegations involving police.
A judge also denied Madigan’s bid for a new trial, bringing the once-powerful Democrat ever closer to his sentencing Friday.
The federal preschool program also supports infants up to age 3 in home-based child care centers. Funding levels are still in flux under the Trump administration’s proposed year one budget.
Madigan’s lawyers will likely point to his wife’s health troubles as they argue for a lower sentence for the former Illinois House speaker convicted on corruption charges.
The Illinois Department of Transportation has “paused” contract awards to Builders Paving LLC, prompting a lawsuit from the suburban road-building company that says it was the low bidder on more than $21 million in projects the agency won’t formally award.
At the time Pope Francis picked Bishop Gregg Caggianelli, then-Cardinal Robert Prevost — now Pope Leo XIV — was running the Vatican office that selects and vets prospective bishops. Cardinal Blase Cupich also is part of that office.
State lawmakers said they again will consider the issue later this year. Meanwhile, Cook County will postpone its 2025 tax sale because of concerns over homeowners behind on property taxes losing their homes and equity.
Michael Madigan’s sentencing hearing will cap the most aggressive, expansive corruption investigation in Chicago since the days of Rod Blagojevich. But many wonder: Would President Donald Trump grant clemency?
The U.S. Justice Department program started in 2001 to try to secure stiffer prison sentences for gun offenders. Up to now in Chicago, it was concentrated in high-crime areas on the West and South Sides.
A bill approved Friday in Springfield would address some of the problems identified in “Failure to treat, failure to protect,” a Chicago Sun-Times Watchdogs series.
Madigan wielded the speaker’s gavel in Springfield for 36 years. Now he’s bracing to learn his fate June 13, when he’s due to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge John Blakey. The hearing comes four months after a jury convicted Madigan in an historic verdict.
It’s not unusual for Illinois to send high-profile prisoners away to serve their time elsewhere. Colorado prison officials say they have Hoover, but it’s not clear where Crimo is serving his sentence.
The path went through California, Mississippi and Florida before ending Wednesday with Trump commuting Hoover’s life sentence. On Friday, federal prison officials confirmed he left their custody and a 74-year-old Larry Hoover is now listed as a state inmate in Colorado.
Christopher Pazan broke records playing quarterback in high school and started some games at the University of Illinois. A cop since 2015, Pazan was allegedly caught on video swiping $300 worth of baseball cards from a Meijer superstore.
Hoover and David Barksdale created the Gangster Disciples in the late 1960s, ruling as “King Larry” and “King David” until Barksdale was killed in 1974.
Chicago Transit Authority employees who processed cash and coins from buses and trains worked only three days a week since March 2020, but were paid for five days of work, according to a state inspector general’s investigation. Their bosses knew, but did nothing about it.
Sentencings in the case are set to begin July 14.
“We do not bill interest or penalty in the event of an assessor error,” says an aide to Assessor Fritz Kaegi. The agency’s records show it’s made them on 287 properties.
Illinois saw the second-highest jump in home insurance premiums in the nation, partly fueled by claims after extreme weather events.
Marcus Taylor has pleaded guilty to fraud and drug-dealing charges. He could face at least eight years in prison.
“He’s the one who gave me permission” to stay at a Hyde Park monastery in 2000, former priest James M. Ray told the Chicago Sun-Times of Robert Prevost, the newly installed pope who was then head of the Midwest province of his Augustinian order.
They say the agency helped them advocate to protect other families after their children died in safety accidents.