Illegal strip search of Marine was 'terrifying, embarrassing and degrading': suit

The questioning — and verbal fireworks — began with the federal corruption scandal that threatens to bring down embattled 14th Ward Ald. Ed Burke.

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is recalling about 46,000 of its employees furloughed by the government shutdown — nearly 60 percent of its workforce — to handle tax returns and pay out refunds. The employees won't be paid.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker spent Day One as the state’s chief executive undoing some of his predecessor’s handiwork — unfreezing the pay levels of about 20,000 state workers by reinstating increases they had been denied.

Nine of the 15 Chicago mayoral candidates took turns tossing around ideas for an improved public transit system Tuesday evening at a forum in Pilsen. The 90-minute event featured a variety of proposals — some more welcome by the audience than others.