Patrick Rehkamp

The politician-grandson of late Mayor Richard J. Daley now owns the family’s iconic South Side bungalow. Why has he been collecting tax breaks on that home and another?

Cook County’s government-run pharmacies have been so badly managed the DEA was brought in to help straighten them out.

After virus fouls Cook County highway department computer network, agency starts looking beyond just potholes, toward enhancing online security.

Cook County official quietly angles for millions but needs to get her house in order.

Politically active city worker asks for long-ago criminal record to be cleared. Governor acts – helping him in more ways than one.

In latest mishap with Chicago Fire Department vehicles, ambulance breaks down while carrying gunshot victim. He later dies.

Board members elected to oversee taxpayer-funded South Suburban College are getting their relatives on the payroll – a bad civics lesson.

Many municipalities allow firefighters and paramedics to work with a substantial amount of alcohol in their systems – a dangerous mix that puts public-safety employees, and the public, at risk.