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CBS 2 has been trying to get what should be public spending records from the city to see what companies and organizations are being paid and how much.

Members of the Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society of Chicago spent nearly a decade cataloging the burial records of Black Chicagoans. The records are now at the Carter G. Woodson ...

NBC 5 Responds finds background check websites often fail to locate criminal records We ran background checks on seven Chicago men who were convicted of serious crimes. In several cases, the paid ...

Records obtained by the Sun-Times show the police have handed over documents that include the names, addresses and countries of origin of people targeted by federal immigration authorities.

Welcome to our online display of public records. This page is updated weekly and enables paid members to access public records and legal filings collected from local courthouses and government ...

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled last week that part of a Chicago police union contract mandating the destruction of police disciplinary records more than five years old violates an “explicit, ...

A Chicago police union’s collective-bargaining agreement requirement that the police department destroy all officer disciplinary records after five years is unenforceable because it conflicts with ...

For over a year, NBC 5 Investigates has been reporting on the shocking number of hit-and-run crashes across Chicago: more than 31,000 so far this year, killing 25 people and injuring over 4,100 ...