What happened at South Chicago Chapel after decomposing bodies were found? A hearing is scheduled Thursday in a lawsuit against the South Deering funeral home after a grisly discovery this August. Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 24
Over 50 decomposing bodies found inside Chicago funeral home Officials said the conditions at the funeral home were so deplorable that there were maggots on the bodies The Independent UK · Aug 7
Brickbat: Cutting You Off Illinois State Comptroller Susana Mendoza has stopped state funding to the city of Dolton after Mayor Tiffany Henyard refused to turn over a financial reports and a financial audit, as required by state law. Mendoza said she may fine the city if it fails to turn over the reports. Henyard… Reason · Aug 26, 2024
Illinois State Comptroller Suspends Funds To Dolton Village Illinois State Comptroller suspends funds to Dolton over financial record issues and alleged misconduct by Mayor Henyard. Top News · Aug 16, 2024
Illinois comptroller’s office attorney fired over antisemitic comments on Instagram Officials in the office on Thursday dismissed an attorney who admitted to posting antisemitic comments. Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 20, 2023
Todd Maisch dies at 57: Illinois Chamber of Commerce leader and business ‘champion’ State officials remembered Todd Maisch as an advocate for the business community who could find common ground between adversaries across political lines. Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 2, 2023
Pritzker signs bill guaranteeing disability pay to first responders who contracted COVID-19 Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza’s Chicago cop brother was denied duty disability benefits despite contracting COVID-19 on the job in 2020. Mendoza, who attended Wednesday’s ceremony, wiped away tears as she thanked the governor and others who helped get the bill passed. Chicago Sun-Times · May 10, 2023
Judge halts public release of Madigan recordings, slain officer mourned and more in your Chicago news roundup Today’s update is a five-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories. Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 9, 2023
Susana Mendoza urges legislators to mandate full pension benefits for cops, firefighters who survive COVID-19 The Illinois comptroller choked up telling a House panel how her brother, a Chicago cop, was left disabled by COVID but denied full disability benefits. Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 9, 2023
Hundreds gather to mourn slain Chicago Officer Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso: ‘He had a lot ahead for him’ Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, state Comptroller Susana Mendoza are among those paying respects to the officer shot and killed in a foot pursuit in Gage Park. Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 9, 2023
Lightfoot denies playing politics with police pension board One week before the mayoral election, Lightfoot felt the need to personally deny explosive allegations by Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza. Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 21, 2023
Chicago’s plan to make left turns safer, Lightfoot accused of betraying cops with COVID-19 and more in your Chicago news roundup Today’s update is a five-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories. Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 21, 2023
Susana Mendoza: Mayor Lori Lightfoot betrayed Chicago cops disabled by COVID, including Mendoza’s brother State comptroller says Lightfoot instructed her pension board appointees to deny “duty disability” salary and health benefits to police officers, including Mendoza’s brother, after they got career-ending coronavirus complications. Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 21, 2023
Pritzker steers Illinois toward a true balanced budget The deficit at the end of the coming fiscal year is said to be the lowest “in nominal, non-inflation-adjusted dollars that it has been in 25 years.” Not bad. Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 18, 2023
The Independent UK · Feb 15, 2023 Pritzker calls for universal preschool in Illinois by 2027 Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is calling for making preschool available to every 3- and 4-year-old in the state within four years, starting with a $440 million investment to bring 5,000 additional children into the program this fall
Chicago Tribune · Jan 1, 2023 Lori Lightfoot came out of nowhere to win the 2019 Chicago mayor’s race. Can a lesser-known challenger do the same this time? CHICAGO — At this time in Chicago’s 2019 election cycle, nobody gave Lori Lightfoot a chance to win her long-shot bid for mayor.
Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 9, 2022 Down-ballot Democrats deliver drubbing: Mendoza reelected state comptroller, Frerichs treasurer Family and friends of Susana Mendoza, the incumbent Illinois comptroller, gathered at the Palmer House Hilton and clapped and cheered at her showing in early returns. Michael Frerichs lead in his bid for reelection as treasurer.
Chicago Tribune · Nov 9, 2022 US Sen. Tammy Duckworth wins second term CHICAGO — U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth was expected to sail to a second term Tuesday after her Republican challenger struggled to gain traction against the incumbent and rising political star in the Democratic Party.
Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 31, 2022 Six candidates from three parties fighting for two offices voters know little about — but probably should Democratic state Comptroller Susana Mendoza and state Treasurer Michael Frerichs are facing challenges from Republicans Shannon Teresi and Tom Demmer and Libertarians Deirdre McCloskey and Preston Nelson.
Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 14, 2022 Sun-Times/WBEZ Poll: Pritzker’s ‘coattails’ pull other, lesser-known statewide Democrats along for the ride Democrats hold strong leads in the races for Illinois secretary of state, attorney general, comptroller and treasurer, according to the poll. “Absolutely, I do think it’s a coattail effect with Gov. Pritzker,” one voter said.
Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 4, 2022 Volunteers archive key burial records — preserving the histories of tens of thousands of Black Chicagoans Members of the Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society of Chicago spent nearly a decade cataloging the burial records of Black Chicagoans. A digital archive is now at the Carter G. Woodson Regional Chicago Public Library, 9525 S. Halsted St.
Chicago Tribune · Aug 18, 2022 Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker calls on the ‘coalition of the sane’ to defeat ‘the lunatic fringe’ as Democrats rally at state fair SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Democrats looked to both the past and the future as rallying points on their day at the Illinois State Fair on Wednesday, castigating former Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s one-term stewardship of the state and warning that the party’s candidate for governor in November, Darren Bailey, would…
Chicago Sun-Times · May 9, 2022 Luis Gutierrez, Chuy Garcia endorsement divide in new Illinois Hispanic congressional district The Sun-Times has learned that ex-Rep. Luis Gutierrez and Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza on Monday will endorse the Democratic primary bid of Ald. Gil Villegas.
Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 10, 2022 Gov. Pritzker’s camp grapples with Dem Party Chair Rep. Kelly: Coordinated campaign an issue “I think we can be a lot further along. We need more cooperation,” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told the Sun-Times. “We’re moving in the right direction but too slowly.”