Some Illinois doctors billing Medicare top rate
A Melrose Park pain specialist charged Medicare the highest rate allowed for more than 80 percent of her established patients' office visits in 2012, government records show. That same year,...
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Some Illinois doctors billing Medicare top rate
A Melrose Park pain specialist charged Medicare the highest rate allowed for more than 80 percent of her established patients' office visits in 2012, government records show. That same year,...
As Exelon threatens to shut nuclear plants, Illinois town fears fallout
Exelon's six nuclear power plants in Illinois have failed to turn a profit over the last five years, and the 27-year-old plant here is the most vulnerable for closing, a...
EPA weighs tighter smog rules for Chicago, other Illinois cities
Decades of efforts to curb air pollution have cut lung-damaging smog to levels far below the hazy days of the 1970s and '80s in Chicago and most other big urban...
EPA weighs tighter smog rules for Chicago, other Illinois cities
Decades of efforts to curb air pollution have cut lung-damaging smog to levels far below the hazy days of the 1970s and '80s in Chicago and most other big urban...
New smog limits could squeeze Chicago
Decades of efforts to curb air pollution have cut lung-damaging smog to levels far below the hazy days of the 1970s and '80s in Chicago and most other big urban...
How Madigan builds his patronage army
When House Speaker Michael Madigan accidentally triggered a patronage scandal at the Metra commuter rail agency, it was the result of two extraordinary events. First his request to boost the...
How Madigan builds his patronage army
When House Speaker Michael Madigan accidentally triggered a patronage scandal at the Metra commuter rail agency, it was the result of two extraordinary events. First his request to boost the...
Seldom appealed, rarely won
When Richard and Geraldine Walen got the first of 21 red light camera tickets from Chicago in their Palos Hills mailbox, they did the same thing tens of thousands of...
Public workers caught running red lights 11,500 times
Public workers ran Chicago red lights more than 11,500 times in the past seven years, driving everything from CTA buses and garbage trucks to unmarked police cars and City Hall...