The Watchdogs
“Basically what did he do? Did he touch anybody or just watch a video?” Rabbi Moshe Yosef Unger said when asked why he sent a letter to a judge seeking leniency for former congregant Dovid Akiva Shenkman. Unger wrote to the court: “I am confident that he poses no danger to anyone.”
Alicia Mandujano — one of 16 people people indicted after the bank’s collapse in 2017 — was sentenced Monday to two years of supervised release, including 12 months of home detention.
The Sun-Times is digging into pricing data from Chicago area hospitals and would like to know what you have experienced.
CoreCivic is looking for administrative workers to help U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Chicago and at ICE’s Broadview processing facility.
Fidel Marquez agreed to make secret recordings for the FBI in exchange for a sentence that likely won’t include prison time.
The immigration agent’s partner said he suffered a “knee injury” and “some lacerations to his hands,” according to police body camera footage obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times. But the feds reported he was “seriously injured” before he fatally shot Silverio Villegas González.
An online database compiled by Turning Point USA, affiliated with slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, identifies nearly 50 Illinois college instructors it labels “radical professors.”
Some of those arrested have violent criminal histories, including men convicted of murder and sexually abusing a child. Others were previously deported. But the full scale of the operation remains unclear.
The Trump administration scrapped the agency’s body cam program soon after the president took office this year, according to a former ICE chief of staff in the Biden administration. The Chicago Police Department uses the devices.
The incident, which happened the same weekend as the suburb’s annual family festival, led to criminal charges against 55-year-old Michael Terzo, who’s due in court this week. Why did he allegedly beat the 24-year-old man? “He disrespected me,” Terzo said, according to police records.
“This is the most unusual situation I’ve seen in my entire lifetime,” the governor said Monday of what appears to be the first fatal shooting by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent this year. A man who witnessed the deadly encounter said he doesn’t think the official account is true.
While James Crotty was helping run an embezzlement scheme at Washington Federal Bank for Savings, he was secretly stealing money, claiming he spent the money on postage.
The Sun-Times examined campaign contributions by those identified in elections records as part of the National Guard in Illinois and across the country. The results show a tilt toward Republican candidates but with still-sizable Democratic donations.
As superintendent of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, Leonard Dixon is required to live in the county. He has voted in Michigan for over a decade.
The couple have had 10 contracts for properties rented to Chicago Housing Authority voucher holders, including five while Darlena Williams-Burnett was an employee of the city agency.
The federal government stopped publishing comprehensive data in January after President Donald Trump took office, but watchdogs are compiling the numbers.
At least two of the men, and apparently a third, were arrested outside of Illinois, the Sun-Times found. Though they were plucked from out-of-state jails, immigration officials have used their cases to tout the early success of their “blitz” in Chicago.