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Milwaukee’s handling of duty-disability claims for police officers could serve as a model for Illinois – if legislators ever tackle pension reform.

Chicago company once co-owned by Illinois Lottery director sees taxpayer-funded deal scrapped over ethics concerns – then quietly resurrected.

Tired of tapping into Chicago’s increasingly pricey water supply, south suburbs are studying if and how they can build their own water delivery system. But costs are soaring, and taxpayers could end up soaked.

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?

Some judges at Cook County’s main criminal courthouse are refusing new security measures imposed by the sheriff, including mandatory trunk inspections.

Larry Huggins, a member of Metra’s troubled board until recently, has longstanding ties to the family of imprisoned Gangster Disciples chief Larry Hoover Sr., the BGA found.

A long-ago letter, bearing the name of CTA Chairman Terry Peterson and recently obtained by the BGA, lauds the leader of the Gangster Disciples and lobbies for his early release from jail. Peterson is now denying he was an author.