Chicago fights corruption's long shadow - again
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A high-profile probe and a towing scandal are the latest in the city's struggles against crooked deals.
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FOR decades, the chummy inner circles of Chicago&#39;s business and political worlds have been marked with the footprints of men steeped in very muscular, very Irish traditions.
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MEXICO CITY -- Nine months after he disappeared under a cloud of corruption allegations at home, former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo is living and working in the same Mexican city he fled two decades ago to avoid arrest on murder charges, the Associated Press has learned.
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Some are starting to wonder whether the mayor's ambitious pledge of four years ago was more politics than policy
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Barack Obama is giving to charity more than $70,000 in contributions linked to an indicted Chicago businessman whose past connections to the Democratic presidential candidate have created a distraction and raised questions about his judgment.
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The corruption-tainted president is still favored to win reelection, but his failure to gain a majority on the first round has shaken him
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In Brett Morgen's documentary about the Chicago Seven, not everyone is flesh and blood.
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The appointment of this city's first inspector general is the latest in a list of government reforms since Hurricane Katrina &#151; one some observers say reflects the waning of the public's long-standing tolerance of political corruption and waste.
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Over the past 15 years, federal prosecutors in Connecticut have indicted four mayors, taken down the state treasurer, put palm-greasing bankers behind bars and won a guilty plea from a top aide to the governor. But in the past four months, their corruption probe of former Gov. John G. Rowland's administration has taken a particularly aggressive turn.
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ROSEMONT, Ill. - Donald Stephens spent more than half a century at the helm of this Chicago suburb. Now, less than two months after his death, some say an eerie likeness of the late mayor's face has appeared in the peeling bark of a 50-foot sycamore.
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Some are starting to wonder whether Mayor Daley's ambitious pledge of four years ago was more politics than policy
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Corruption is rampant in sixty countries of the world and the public sector continues to be plagued by bribery, says a report by a respected global corruption watchdog.
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Mayor Richard M. Daley won a sixth term Tuesday, overcoming a City Hall corruption scandal and putting himself on course to eclipse his legendary father's record as the city's longest-serving mayor.
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EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - It's not quite the highway beautification Illinois transportation officials had in mind.
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Federal prosecutors are planning to unveil an indictment against former New York City police commissioner Bernard B. Kerik as early as week's end, spotlighting alleged corruption that occurred a decade ago when he worked was a trusted adviser to former New York mayor -- and now presidential...
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Despite a City Hall corruption scandal, Mayor Richard M. Daley sought a sixth term Tuesday in a re-election campaign that could put him on course to eclipse his legendary father and become the city's longest-serving mayor.
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Having come of age as a political independent while the Cook County Democratic Machine was at its zenith, former Illinois congressman and federal appeals court Judge Abner Mikva knows a thing or two about vote fraud.