Alex Richards

The cost of fertility preservation generally exceeds $10,000, with an additional $1,000 in annual storage fees.

Op-ed: Fertility preservation gave me reassurance during my cancer fight. Everyone deserves coverage.

December 31, 2021 at 11:00 a.m.

There I sat, a high school senior, stunned and unable to process anything I was being told. My mother asked the doctor if we would be starting chemotherapy immediately. The...

Detainees head to their court appearances in a tunnel beneath Cook County Jail on Dec. 9, 2019.

Kim Foxx drops more felony cases as Cook County state’s attorney than her predecessor, Tribune analysis shows

June 14, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx is dropping felony cases involving charges of murder and other serious offenses at a higher rate than her predecessor, according to a Tribune analysis...

Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago in 2018.

How we analyzed Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s record on dropped cases

June 14, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

To compare Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx's record of dropping cases against felony defendants to that of her predecessor, fellow Democrat Anita Alvarez, the Tribune analyzed data that Foxx...

Many red light cameras put in low-crash areas, Tribune study finds

August 18, 2019 at 11:28 p.m.

Nearly half of the Chicago red light cameras included in a new Tribune study did nothing to make drivers safer and may have caused an increase in injury-related crashes. Researchers...

An SUV enters a red light camera intersection Dec. 7, 2014, at Madison Street and Ashland Avenue on Chicago's Near West Side.

How the red light camera study was done

August 18, 2019 at 11:28 p.m.

The Chicago Tribune commissioned the study of red light cameras with two researchers affiliated with Texas A&M University who conducted the work as independent consultants. Under their guidance, and with...

Tribune study: Chicago red light cameras provide few safety benefits

August 18, 2019 at 11:28 p.m.

Chicago's red light cameras fail to deliver the dramatic safety benefits long claimed by City Hall, according to a first-ever scientific study that found the nation's largest camera program is...

The number of CTA employees fired has increased every year since Forrest Claypool took over as president of the transit agency in 2011. Bus drivers were atop the dismissal list, records show.

CTA employee dismissals soar under Claypool’s watch

June 18, 2018 at 12:54 p.m.

Even before his first day on the job in spring 2011, CTA President Forrest Claypool said his top priority was to clean up the transit agency, in large part by...

Few red light camera refunds, spikes unexplained

June 17, 2018 at 11:56 a.m.

City Hall has promised 126 refunds to drivers tagged for $100 fines during suspicious spikes in red light camera tickets discovered by a Tribune investigation but upheld thousands of other...

Obamacare Sunshine Act sheds light on $3.5B paid to doctors

June 17, 2018 at 12:13 p.m.

U.S. doctors and teaching hospitals received nearly $3.5 billion from pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers over the last five months of 2013, according to a partial set of data...

Medical industry paid billions to doctors, hospitals last year, data show

June 17, 2018 at 12:08 p.m.

U.S. doctors and teaching hospitals received nearly $3.5 billion worth of payments and other financial ties from pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers over the last five months of 2013,...

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