Doctors, nurses ready to deploy
By noon Thursday, Dr. Joseph Pulvirenti and his informal team of a dozen other stranded doctors had done all they could from the sweltering, overcrowded confines of the New Orleans...
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City’s buildings chief leaving Daley’s cabinet
The Chicago buildings commissioner who enjoyed the support of Mayor Richard Daley even as his department was tainted by a hiring scandal announced he will step down at the end...
Noelle Brennan
Noelle Brennan is no stranger to cabinets full of documents and long witness lists. The newly appointed monitor who will be a watchdog over city hiring has investigated giant organizations...
Still dangerous?
Two years after a fatal porch collapse in Lincoln Park prompted a citywide inspection sweep, about half the structures that failed still don't have the permits required for proper repairs....
Landlords ignore orders to fix hazardous porches
Two years after a fatal porch collapse in Lincoln Park prompted a citywide inspection sweep, about half the structures that failed still don't have the permits required for proper repairs....
Expanding city probe hits zoning inspector
The chief inspector in the city's Zoning Department was put on paid administrative leave Thursday as part of the city's widening investigation into a controversial condominium development. John Quinn, who...
2 buildings officials quit amid city probe
Two senior officials in the city's Buildings Department have resigned amid an internal investigation into possible wrongdoing, the Daley administration said Wednesday. Kimberly Brown, the department's $124,700-a-year first deputy commissioner,...
Building shows Section 8 doesn’t have to be subpar
At the Major Jenkins Apartments in Uptown, managers don't wait for government inspectors to tell them what's wrong. Instead, they conduct their own inspections every month. That hands-on approach helps...
Landlords shrug off city fines, lawsuits
Bruce Adelmann, whose previous work experience included supplying cocaine to college kids, was in federal prison when he got the idea for a new calling: real estate. After his release,...
Landlords fail to fix poor’s housing woes
As Chicago bulldozes its notorious high-rise housing developments, low-income families have moved into a growing network of private buildings with conditions sometimes as dire as public housing complexes. Families shiver...