John Chase

John Chase is deputy metro editor for local government and politics. He rejoined the Tribune in 2022 after having worked at the Better Government Association, where he was an editor on the 2021 Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Failures Before the Fires.” He worked at the Tribune from 1998 until 2016 covering Illinois and Chicago politics and government.

U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., and U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill.

How little-known vet home became focal point in U.S. Senate race ad

May 15, 2019 at 8:55 p.m.

Sitting off a narrow two-lane road not far from the Trail of Tears State Forest in far southern Illinois, there's little to suggest the Anna Veterans' Home would become a...

Parolee in ’13 Valentine’s Day robbery charged in ’16 Valentine’s double killing

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

A man on parole in a 2013 Valentine's Day robbery has been charged with murder in the killing on Valentine's Day this year of two men he knew, according to...

Man charged with murder, held on $1 million bail on 18th birthday

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

A Chicago man who turned 18 years old on Saturday was ordered held on $1 million bail after being charged with fatally shooting a 20-year-old man at a house party...

"My wife (Diana) and I have spent more than $20 million trying to donate to teacher training, principal development, charter schools," Gov. Bruce Rauner told an education conference in 2012. "And I would say probably 80 percent of the dollars that we donated have been wasted. Lost. No result."

Rauner email: Half of CPS teachers ‘virtually illiterate’

May 15, 2019 at 8:46 p.m.

Gov. Bruce Rauner once told some of Chicago's wealthiest and most influential civic leaders that half of Chicago Public Schools' teachers "are virtually illiterate" and half of the city's principals...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, foreground, amid the fallout over the police shooting of Laquan McDonald after backing him publicly early on.

Emails to former Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy show wide support

August 21, 2019 at 11:42 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration spent months refusing to turn over emails that, among other things, show broad community and Police Department support for former Superintendent Garry McCarthy after his firing,...

The Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge No. 7 building on May 18, 2016, at 1412 W. Washington Blvd.

Cops traded away pay for protection in police contracts

May 23, 2019 at 2:52 a.m.

From the moment Chicago's Fraternal Order of Police started negotiating its first contract with City Hall 35 years ago, the union identified an issue that would prove key to its...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel prepares to leave after answering reporters' questions at City Hall on March 16, 2016.

Emanuel: Alvarez loss sends clear message on police reform

June 12, 2018 at 7:01 a.m.

The chant started moments before Democratic state's attorney candidate Kim Foxx took the stage to claim victory Tuesday night. "Two down, one to go," began a small group of young...

Emanuel: Alvarez loss sends clear message on police reform

May 15, 2019 at 8:32 p.m.

The chant started moments before Democratic state's attorney candidate Kim Foxx took the stage to claim victory Tuesday night. "Two down, one to go," began a small group of young...

Kenyon Douglass, left, and Marcetta Jamison use their phones to check election results in the Cook County state's attorney race at Kim Foxx's election night headquarters at the Holiday Inn Mart Plaza on March 15, 2016, in Chicago.

Foxx parlays personal story, message of change to big win

May 15, 2019 at 8:31 p.m.

Riding a wave of support from political power brokers and a message of change, Kim Foxx's victory in Tuesday's Democratic primary election places her just one step away from becoming...

Supporters, including U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, standing right, wait for Mayor Rahm Emanuel to address the crowd at the Chicago Journeymen Plumbers union hall Feb. 24, 2015, after he was forced into a runoff with Jesus "Chuy" Garcia.

Rush’s campaign receives financial support from some of Emanuel’s closest political backers

May 15, 2019 at 8:28 p.m.

With longtime U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush caught in a heated re-election battle for Congress, he's receiving major financial support for the first time from some of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's closest...

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