In August, West Side state rep Derrick Smith was expelled after being indicted by the feds on a bribery charge. Will LaShawn Ford, indicted two weeks ago, be next? Read more
A year before the ex-pastor of Hammond's First Baptist Church committed the Mann Act violation he recently pled guilty to, he appeared briefly in an ABC investigation of Independent Baptist churches... and hung hellfire on the network for questioning the idea that women aren't the reason man is fallen. Read more
The web of assistance for struggling Illinois homeowners got a little stronger after a pair of announcements from the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) last week... Read more
The judge who was assigned to the manslaughter trial of Richard J. Vanecko, former Mayor Rich Daley's nephew, says he could be "fair and impartial." But some are urging him to step aside, citing Hill's ties to Daley and others at the Cook County State's Attorney's Office. Read more
Death of the newspaper aside, Chicagoans still throw out a lot of newsprint every year—particularly in high-income wards, where it comes in just behind food scraps in percentage of our trash. Read more
