A letter issued Tuesday by Inspector General Joe Ferguson says that with regard to a number of ethics-related investigations, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is no...

Monday was a good day, even if there are still power plays, shady deals and more money shuffling through Springfield and Chicago each day than through a Vegas casino. A man who thought he was too powerful to be caught was caught.

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...

The blizzard of costs to clean up Chicago's third-largest snowstorm is starting to pile up -- with $8 million in emergency contracts awarded in just o...

Chicago, the city that works, is also the city that keeps on paying city employees long after they're convicted of corruption. Nine former city emplo...

It's time for the feds to cut Robert Blagojevich loose. Let the man get back to Tennessee and reclaim what remains of his old life.

Our democracy is dying right in front of our eyes. That is the ultimate price we pay by ignoring the annual corruption tax and all the misdeeds they represent.

Prompted by findings that a city worker collected a paycheck while sitting in prison, Chicago's inspector general is urging Mayor Richard Daley to req...

Ald. Mary Ann Smith's 1912 craftsman-style bungalow sits on a spacious, leafy corner lot in Edgewater. It's an enviable piece of real estate. Her p...

Chicago has officially lived up to its reputation, at least as far as one iced-tea promo is concerned. HuffPost Chicago reported two days ago on beve...

Joe Ferguson has had his hands full. As Chicago's Inspector General, he's in charge of investigating allegations of fraud, waste and abuse in city go...

In an era of layoffs, unpaid furloughs and reduced benefits at most levels of government, workers for the little-known, taxpayer-financed agency that ...

A $97,416-a-year Chicago Department of Transportation official who is the former son-in-law of mob leader Angelo "The Hook" LaPietra is under internal...

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...

Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown may have scrapped her controversial "Jeans Day" fund-raisers, but the county's inspector general is conf...

With the help of some of my colleagues I was able to delay a vote on a misguided piece of legislation -- the establishment of a "Legislative Inspector General," the proposed "watchdog" of the City Council.

While Chicago government and many of its residents struggled with a tough economy, Chicago aldermen continued to pay relatives, public relations consu...

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...

The FBI covertly interviewed Mayor Daley two years ago while probing the dealings of a developer and a now convicted Chicago alderman. The mayor wa...

Sexual harassment accusations against Chicago Fire Commissioner John Brooks allegedly were shelved by city Office of Compliance chief Anthony Boswell,...

While Mayor Richard M. Daley has changed tactics on residential recycling in an effort to build public participation in the program, that has not stop...

Helen Hawkins, the former head of the Triumphant Charter school on the city's South Side, is facing jail time after using school funds to buy designer...

After retiring as Chicago's deputy city clerk, state Rep. Daniel J. Burke found another way to make money. Lobbying the city. "I had an opportun...

Mayor Daley today transferred control over city hiring from his $4 million-a-year Office of Compliance to the inspector general and dropped a politica...