Dan Mihalopoulos
Watchdogs reporter
Dan Mihalopoulos is a former investigative reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times.
“Every time Chicagoans demand police accountability, nothing happens,” said Jeff Tischauser, a Chicago-based senior researcher with the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Mayor Brandon Johnson and CPD Supt. Larry Snelling had earlier vowed to rid the department of officers listed on the anti-government group Oath Keepers’ rolls.
Larry Rogers Jr. faced heavy spending from Assessor Fritz Kaegi, who backed newcomer Larecia Tucker. “He should have kept his money,” Rogers said Tuesday.
The women allege “childhood sexual abuse” by male supervisors in the years before a scandal at the city’s beaches and pools.
And City Hall’s inspector general says she is continuing to investigate possible Paycheck Protection Program fraud.
Mike Noonan was the consummate Illinois political insider. He now runs a “budtique” in southwestern Michigan.
Cook County Commissioner Bridget Gainer, who’s weighing whether to try to unseat Mayor Rahm Emanuel next year, already has done her part to boost
Longtime Chicago Teamsters union boss John T. Coli Sr.’s nearly three-year tenure as head of a 12,500-member local in Mokena proved lucrative for his son Joseph Coli’s law firm, documents obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times show.
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