Angela Caputo

Patricia Crawford, shown in July, resigned from the Bellwood District 88 school board this week to take a job with the district.

Bellwood board member who questioned spending quits for job with district

June 6, 2018 at 1:56 p.m.

As scrutiny has intensified in the past year over the spending and management practices of Bellwood School District 88, some residents in the west suburban town have looked to elections...

An occupied section of the Lathrop Homes CHA project is shown March 15, 2013, looking south from Diversey Avenue over the Chicago River. The campus of low-rise buildings has been added to Preservation Chicago's list of the city's seven most-threatened historic places.

At Lathrop Homes redevelopment, an uneasy truce

June 8, 2018 at 6:07 p.m.

With an overhaul imminent for the only large public housing complex on Chicago's North Side, a decades-old legal battle over segregation has been reignited. A team of public interest lawyers...

Akeeshea Daniels was one of the last remaining residents at the West Calumet Housing Complex in East Chicago. She and her family have sinced moved out.

At lead-tainted Indiana housing complex, inaction and missed warnings

May 23, 2019 at 3:49 a.m.

First they noticed workers spreading mulch over bare spots on the lawns. Next they were urged by health officials to have their children screened for lead. Then they started seeing...

Bellwood School District 88 school board President Marilyn Thurman has a personal connection with People Cab Co. Her son's father is a driver for the company, state records show.

Bellwood school district faces more questions on spending

May 23, 2019 at 4:01 a.m.

Officials from a small, cash-strapped suburban school district have been under scrutiny this year for what critics say is excessive spending, from extensive travel, to adding friends and family to...

Cubs fans pour down North Michigan Avenue following the World Series celebration parade Nov. 4, 2016, in Chicago.

Cubs parade crowd estimate a guesstimate, experts say

May 16, 2019 at 5:00 a.m.

While there was no shortage of fans who came out to cheer the Chicago Cubs as they took a victory lap during the World Series championship downtown parade Friday, experts...

East Chicago residents fleeing lead contamination find few housing options

May 23, 2019 at 3:33 a.m.

For Nayesa Walker, the clock started ticking just over a month ago. On Sept. 1, she was given 60 days to find a new home after East Chicago Mayor Anthony...

Harvey man charged in June shootout during Dolton break-in

May 23, 2019 at 3:31 a.m.

Almost three months after a south suburban home invasion ended with a shootout, a Harvey man has been charged with attempted murder. In the middle of the night on June...

Superintendent Rosemary Hendricks with attorney Howard Brookins Jr. during the Bellwood School District 88 board meeting in Bellwood on June 20.

Critics of Bellwood schools chief say hiring of armed guards is intimidation tactic

May 23, 2019 at 3:36 a.m.

When Superintendent Rosemary Hendricks was hired to lead a west suburban grade school district, one of her first orders of business was to bring in a security company to sweep...

Laura Rios is seen at her home in Chicago on June 21, 2016. She is the mother of Pedro Rios, who was fatally shot at age 14 by Chicago police after a foot chase on July 4, 2014.

Third of police shootings started with foot chases, Tribune analysis finds

June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m.

Levail Smith had just cracked open a can of beer outside a Rogers Park laundromat on the Fourth of July two years ago when a Chicago police tactical officer pulled...

Georgia Utendhal comforts one of her granddaughters, whose 16-year-old brother was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer in the 8700 block of South Morgan Street in Chicago on July 5, 2014.

92 deaths, 2,623 bullets: Tracking every Chicago police shooting over 6 years

June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m.

Every five days, on average, a Chicago police officer fired a gun at someone. In 435 shootings over a recent six-year span, officers killed 92 people and wounded 170 others....

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