Robert Herguth
Watchdogs Reporter
Robert Herguth is an investigative reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times, part of the Watchdogs team. He focuses on an array of subjects, including police corruption, organized crime and government accountability, as well as religion. He also helps oversee some digital and feature projects.
The Chicago artist is doing that in alleys, on Loop towers, on freight trains, usually without permission.
Bishop Ronald Hicks might consolidate 16 Joliet-area congregations and eventually close other parishes and schools, with “budgetary issues” a factor. His aides won’t say how much has been spent on fallout from the sex abuse crisis.
A team of wildlife experts works to shoo, move away or euthanize birds and other animals found on the airport grounds “to ensure the safety of people and aircraft.”
The agency OK’d Jeffrey Bertucci’s Steak N Egger in 2019 to operate video gaming devices, but officials say they hadn’t realized he testified in 2010 in a mob gambling case.
Investigators recently approached or interviewed current and former village officials, asking how Alsip chose SafeSpeed as its red-light camera contractor.
The Heidners didn’t contest that they owe $5,083,274 in personal federal income taxes from 2021. They say it will all be paid off “by the end of August.”
The company that former Mayor Lori Lightfoot picked to own and operate the planned Chicago casino had financial ties to a consultant City Hall hired to solicit and evaluate bidders.
“I think that they should be” posting lists of abusive members “because it’s been actually asked of us by the larger church,” the Rev. Gregory Polan told the Sun-Times.
The attorney general didn’t name John D. Murphy. The Archdiocese of Chicago settled claims over Murphy but doesn’t include him on its list. And his order hasn’t named abusers — but said Saturday it hopes to “in the near future.”