An Associated Press analysis of the General Assembly scholarship program and state political contribution records found that between 2004 and 2009 at ...
Huffington Post | Posted 09.23.2009 | Chicago
A couple of city workers fed up with Mayor Daley and the rising cost of corruption have taken their anti-clout grievances to YouTube. The result is...
Chicago Tribune | Bob Secter and Andrew Zajac | Posted 08.13.2009 | Chicago
On Thanksgiving eve in 2005, a Metra express train plowed into five cars at the busy Grand Avenue crossing in west suburban Elmwood Park, leaving behi...
Chicago Sun-Times | CHRIS FUSCO, TIM NOVAK AND FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 07.30.2009 | Chicago
Ald. Edward M. Burke wrote a letter in his official capacity that helped a client of his law firm win City Council approval to develop a blighted stre...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 06.27.2009 | Chicago
Illinois Sen. James Meeks told visiting Chicago aldermen not to come see him while they were in Springfield Wednesday, saying to the Windy City lawmak...
Chicago Sun-Times | JORDAN WILSON, TIM NOVAK and LISA DONOVAN | Posted 06.18.2009 | Chicago
There is no "Madigan Electric" listed in the Chicago phone book. But maybe that's what they should call the place you call if your city streetlight go...
Chicago Daily Observer | Russ Stewart | Posted 05.18.2009 | Chicago
There is a correlation between color and clout in Chicago's 50-member city council. There are 23 white, 19 black, and eight Hispanic aldermen. But it'...
Chicago Sun-Times | Tim Novak | Posted 02.09.2009 | Chicago
UPDATE Mayor Daley denied any impropriety in the Christian Industrial League building deal Thursday, blaming the charity's dire financial conditions...
Crain's Chicago Business | Robert Herguth | Posted 01.23.2009 | Chicago
A high-ranking city of Chicago official with ties to the Daley family's 11th Ward Regular Democratic Organization is being investigated for allegedly ...
Chicago Reader | Ben Joravsky | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago
Who has more clout over zoning in the 32nd Ward: Alderman Scott Waguespack or zoning lawyer James Banks? Ordinarily the alderman would be the obvious ...
Posted 10.23.2008 | Chicago
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...
AP | Posted 09.24.2009 | Chicago