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Widespread abuse suspected in RTA’s ‘Senior Ride Free’ program; with oversight lax, transit passes belonging to dead people still are being used on CTA, Pace.

This Crain’s investigation, with reporting from the BGA, takes a hard look at the “fierce, behind-the-scenes struggle for dominance in Chicago’s $500-million-a-year beer market.”

More controversy swirls around the U.S. Senate seat held previously by President Obama, as a failed write-in candidate from Alton, Ill., is investigated for allegedly forging petition signatures.

Teacher fired after reporting alleged student-on-student sexual abuse at a South Side high school

BGA and WGN uncover a grand jury probe of Cook County expense accounts.

Thefts and robberies have risen dramatically on CTA buses, trains and L platforms in the last four years — and are on the rise again this year.

Clergy here go to bat for crooked politicians

Saying a federal appeals court mistakenly created a “watershed moment” that could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul sides with insurance titans that administer healthcare reimbursements