Michael Tarm

Acusadoras se arriesgan al romper tratos de confidencialidad

December 17, 2018 at 11:11 p.m.

Los detalles de los abusos sexuales presuntamente perpetrados por el magnate de Hollywood Harvey Weinstein, el comediante Bill Cosby y otras figuras famosas son ahora ampliamente conocidos en parte porque...

Ex-Life Time Fitness VP, friends indicted in Chicago for insider trading

June 2, 2018 at 9:29 a.m.

A former executive at a major Minnesota-based fitness firm and eight other people are accused in a new federal indictment of using insider information to make nearly $900,000 by scooping...

Mystery of missing Chinese scholar shakes up the University of Illinois

August 22, 2019 at 4:55 a.m.

Yingying Zhang, the daughter of a working-class factory driver from China, took the same career path as many other young Chinese academics before her: She traveled to a university in...

Facebook Live attack stirs questions about witnessing crimes online

August 22, 2019 at 3:41 a.m.

The case of a 15-year-old Chicago girl who authorities say was raped while around 40 people watched on Facebook raises questions that have come up before in other attacks: What's...

Pastor Corey Brooks of the New Beginnings Church poses for a portrait on a under maintained security wall that hugs the sprawling Norfolk Southern train yard and his church on Chicago's South Side.

Railroad thefts and guns: A deadly mix in Chicago

June 5, 2018 at 10:44 p.m.

When street-gang thieves slipped with ease into a Norfolk Southern rail yard on Chicago's South Side and ripped locks off one train, they likely expected to see merchandise like toys...

Ex-CEO pleads guilty to arranging bribes on traffic cameras

August 19, 2019 at 1:19 a.m.

CHICAGO — The former chief executive of a red-light camera company changed her plea to guilty on Thursday in a scheme that funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes...

Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert leaves Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago after sentencing on April 27, 2016.

Some puzzling questions in Hastert case

May 21, 2019 at 10:32 p.m.

The federal indictment of former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has raised a long list of puzzling legal questions, including why prosecutors filed banking charges in a case that, at...

Latest developments in Hastert hush-money case

May 8, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

A Montana woman says her brother was sexually abused while at Yorkville High School in the 1970s by Dennis Hastert, the school's wrestling coach who later became U.S. House speaker....

Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. gives a thumbs-up from a van during a stop Thursday in Atlanta after leaving a federal prison camp in Alabama. (AP Photo/Courtesy of WBBM-TV, CBS2 Chicago)

Jesse Jackson Jr. leaves federal prison

May 21, 2019 at 10:07 p.m.

Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. left an Alabama federal prison early Thursday bound for a halfway house, where he begins his transition back into society two years after pleading...

Workers stand on steel beams, which just arrived, in the left field area of Wrigley Field in Chicago as construction continues on Monday, Feb. 9, 2015. (Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune)

Lawyer: Wrigley video board would kill rooftop clubs

May 21, 2019 at 10:06 p.m.

A lawyer for rooftop clubs overlooking Wrigley Field told a federal judge on Monday that if the Chicago Cubs are permitted to erect a giant video board blocking views of...

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