Bridgeport
‘Once the smell of sawdust and the excitement gets into your blood, it’s awfully difficult to look away when you hear that old calliope,’ she told an interviewer.
The mayor is expected, by Wednesday’s Chicago City Council meeting, to reveal her choice amid pressure to name someone who is Asian American.
Jane Iriondo is now the fourth person to plead guilty in connection with the $66 million embezzlement scheme at Washington Federal Bank for Savings. The bank was central to the trial of Patrick Daley Thompson.
Documents subpoenaed by prosecutors and other public records reflect a growing desperation as he tried to quadruple the amount of money he was borrowing from Washington Federal Bank for Savings.
James Crotty admitted helping embezzle $66 million from from Washington Federal Bank for Savings by falsifying records and lying to regulators. He’s cooperating with prosecutors.
Thompson resigned last week after being found guilty by a U.S. District Court jury of lying to regulators and filing false income tax returns.
He should have known he shouldn’t be playing in certain sandboxes. Washington Federal Bank for Savings was such a sandbox, a playpen for scoundrels.
His guilty verdict for claiming deductions for interest he never paid to a failed Bridgeport bank, Washington Federal Bank for Savings, isn’t the only time he’s had trouble with the IRS.
Alicia Mandujano said the bank president told her to let Thompson into the bank before business hours so he could pick up the first payment. She said Thompson also picked up the second and third payment in the president’s office, which was on the second, non-public floor of the bank.
U.S. District Judge Franklin Valderrama made the ruling at a hearing Friday, where it appeared Thompson’s trial is on track to begin Feb. 4.
William M. Mahon, who was once suspended for helping rig city job applicants’ test scores, now faces charges over his role as a Washington Federal Bank for Savings board member.
‘Dividing areas or neighborhoods based on race is indeed racism,’ the Chicago City Council member representing Bridgeport says in a letter to his ‘11th Ward family.’
The 2020 census shows Asian Americans for the first time are the biggest ethnic or racial group in Bridgeport and are seeing big gains in many areas along Archer Avenue.
Patrick Daley Thompson’s friend Michael Meagher is president of McHugh Construction, which is restoring the old Ramova Theatre with City Hall’s financial backing.
After the team’s WNBA title and a downtown championship parade, fans are left with few options for gear they say is available for other major sports teams. Retailers say supply-chain issues and a lack of distributors are to blame.
After their team reached the postseason for a second consecutive year for the first time in franchise history, some Sox fans say being the only Chicago team with a shot at the World Series is enough to make them smile this year.
A proposed redrawing of Chicago’s ward map would create that majority by combining parts of Bridgeport, Armour Square and McKinley Park in a new 11th Ward.
In a sealed deposition, Janice Gembara Weston said John Gembara began bringing Marek Matczuk to the bank’s annual board meeting after the ouster of a board member.
The new revelation came after Thompson’s defense attorney, Chris Gair, again blasted the feds’ prosecution of Thompson and pushed for a trial as soon as this fall.
Police consent decree monitor Maggie Hickey and chef Kevin Hickey are dealing with their late father’s losses from Washington Federal Bank for Savings’s shutdown.
Lawyers argued about whether Thompson must surrender his passport while awaiting trial. It’s a routine request, but his attorney called it “just punitive.” The judge gave Thompson a week to turn in his passport — and his FOID card.
He got $89,000 from Washington Federal Bank for Savings after another Bridgeport bank demanded he repay a loan that was nearly three years past due.
The 36-year-old man was discovered Wednesday morning in the 200 block of West 37th Street, with a gunshot wound to the head.
A federal indictment Thursday raises the question: Does this mark the end of the line for the Daleys in Chicago politics, or at least the beginning of the end? I expect it does.
The Bridgeport alderman, 51, who faces seven charges involving Washington Federal Bank for Savings, says: ‘I did not commit any crime, I am innocent, and I will prove it at trial.’
Tyler Nevius says his backers remain in place and he hopes to reopen the 1929 movie house as a performing arts venue by late 2022.
