Chip Mitchell | WBEZ - Chicago Sun-Times

Lorenzo Davis, photographed in 2015, was fired as a supervising investigator of the Independent Police Review Authority. His attorney says he is a “real life hero for the citizens of the city of Chicago.”

Appeals court upholds $1.1 million for investigator who refused to change findings on CPD shootings

Lorenzo Davis was fired in 2015 from his job as a supervisor of Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority, since replaced by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability.

By Chip Mitchell | WBEZ

Running against each other in the Democratic March 19 primary for Cook County state’s attorney are Eileen O’Neill Burke and Clayton Harris III.

Elections

Nearly all of state's attorney hopeful Eileen O'Neill Burke's big funders are white men

The ex-judge’s top 25 individual donors include no African Americans and no women, a WBEZ analysis of her Illinois campaign filings finds.

By Chip Mitchell | WBEZ

Elections

With conservative donor help, O'Neill Burke widens fundraising lead in Cook County state's attorney primary

Eileen O’Neill Burke, who faces Clayton Harris III in the Democratic primary, has received hundreds of thousands from conservatives.

By Chip Mitchell | WBEZ and Patrick Smith | WBEZ