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Mayor of troubled south suburb fails to reach compromise on alleged campaign-finance violations, raising the prospect that he won’t be allowed on the spring ballot.

Politicians Tom Cross and Dan Rutherford will soon be leaving state-government posts. But their public-sector paydays could continue if they elect to take their generous pensions.

Employees at the Illinois Department of Transportation are tinting windows on work vehicles – without permission or, in one instance, regard for the law. Why do they want their truck cabs so dark?

While traveling for personal reasons, three Riverdale cops flew commercially with department handguns in their possession – potentially violating federal regulations in the process.