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  Chicago Sun-Times

  

  23 hours ago

  Brighton Park migrant site construction halted pending environmental review

  suntimes.com - Tina Sfondeles, Brett Chase

  Construction was halted Sunday pending an Illinois Environmental Protection Agency review of a nearly 800-page city consultant’s study that was …

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  Chicago Sun-Times

  

  21 hours ago

  Why Burger King did not hire Ed Burke’s law firm, despite alleged pressure from the powerful politician

  suntimes.com - Jon Seidel

  Executive said the Klafter & Burke firm “seemed very disorganized.” Longtime Chicago Ald. Edward M. Burke doesn’t have much to show for the alleged …

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  Chicago Sun-Times

  

  3 days ago

  The one that got away? Burke comes up empty after yearslong pursuit of the ‘tuna,’ jurors hear

  suntimes.com - Jon Seidel

  Burke tried, but failed, to leverage his political clout to strong-arm business for his tax appeals firm out of the New York business that …

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  Chicago Sun-Times

  

  4 days ago

  Chicago City Hall is owed billions of dollars it hasn’t managed to collect

  suntimes.com - Mitchell Armentrout, Tim Novak

  A Sun-Times analysis finds that thousands of scofflaws — many from the suburbs — have dodged city debts over the years, depriving City Hall of a …

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  Chicago Sun-Times

  

  4 days ago

  Advocates for clergy sex abuse survivors want priest added to all Chicago-area dioceses’ predator clergy lists

  suntimes.com - David Struett

  Rev. Richard McGrath’s name belongs on lists of abusers kept by all Catholic dioceses where he worked, the Survivors Network of Those Abused by …

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  Chicago Sun-Times

  

  4 days ago

  Landing a ‘tuna,’ lobbing an F-bomb — Burke’s famous quotes played for jurors after defense mistrial denial

  suntimes.com - Jon Seidel, Mariah Woelfel

  U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall denied a request for mistrial over a remark about the ‘Chicago way of doing business’ being ‘very corrupt.’ That …