Cook County Corruption

A former Stroger Hospital doctor was given checks amounting to six figures with no work to show for it, an NBC Chicago / Better Government Association...

Even as the county ethics board investigates Joe Berrios' hiring of family members, the Cook County Assessor gave his daughter a $10,000 pay raise, th...

A mini-water park run by the Cook County Forest Preserve allegedly became a personal playground for staffers who boozed it up, had sex or just napped ...

A former top Cook County official awaiting trial on public corruption charges has been collecting unemployment benefits despite her arrest, county off...

Even before he won the Cook County Assessor seat, Democrat Joe Berrios was taking Cook County nepotism to a whole new level. While most government wor...

Berrios stands as a prime example of the kind of closed, self-interested politics that plagues this state. The Board of Review, where he has spent the...

Todd Stroger's staff bent or broke county hiring rules to put supporters on payroll and fire naysayers, according to a scathing report released Tuesda...

A group of suburban public servants were arrested Tuesday in a corruption probe looking allegations they profited from their positions. ...

Sounding a bit like his brother, the usually measured Cook County Commissioner John Daley called the unfolding contract scandal in County Board Presid...

A federal jury has convicted a Chicago developer of bribing an alderman in exchange for his support on a West Side project. Calvin Boender was foun...

It's no mystery that Cook County has had its share of political corruption, but a study released Thursday puts it into perspective: 150 top Cook Count...

As part of an ongoing investigation into financial corruption, a Cook County Circuit Court clerk was arrested Wednesday for allegedly accepting a brib...

Regional Supt. Charles Flowers was charged today with theft by the Cook County state's attorney's office. At a news conference this afternoon, Coo...

An Illinois legal-reform group released a study Wednesday suggesting Cook County is squandering millions of dollars annually with a lax approach to fi...

A joint investigation by the Daily Herald and the Better Government Association has found that the companies that received the 11 contracts worth $11....

[Cook County Sheriff Thomas] Dart has formed a new Financial Crimes/Public Corruption Unit, the first of its kind in the sheriff's office, to investig...

When a committee gathered Saturday to fill the Cook County Board vacancy created by spirited reformer Mike Quigley's ascension to the U.S. Congress, it was no surprise that talk of a fix was rampant.

As taxpayers look down the barrel of a major income tax increase, another tax already is draining their wallets. But this one isn't found anywhere in ...

"Frankly, Sheriff Dart's actions mystify me," said craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster, referencing the private civil suit filed against the online service Thursday by the Cook County (Illinois) Sheriff.

Last winter, Cook County Highway Department maintenance employees called in sick, took vacation or put in for paid time off on the same days they earn...

Short of absolute dictatorships, my staff and I couldn't find an example of a more powerful veto anywhere in the world. Why does the president of the Cook County Board have this much power?

Cook County Commissioners are paid $85,000 per year in taxpayer-funded salary. But they also receive more than $1,200 a month in no-strings-attached ...

"Cook County will pay more than $100,000 each to four victims of illegal political patronage as part of 108 awards announced Thursday by a court-appoi...

Want to know who owes whom in Chicago politics? Connecting the dots just got a lot easier with the creation of CloutWiki, an interactive reference sit...

Can the attorney who defended Cook County against allegations of illegal political hiring be an independent inspector general? That depends on how yo...