Bill McCaffrey

Longtime Chicago City Hall spokesman Bill McCaffrey was fired by Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday after he raised ethical concerns, the Sun-Times reported. ”Bill McCaffrey is no longer with the Office of the Corporation Counsel,” Lightfoot’s office said in a statement Saturday. “As this is a personnel matter, we will not be commenting further.” McCaffrey declined to comment on...

A lawyer says Chicago has benefited from 22,000 uncashed checks worth $11 million, some going back to the 1980s.

A former Chicago police officer has been awarded nearly $2 million in her lawsuit alleging that the city retaliated against her for reporting a co-worker’s misconduct.

Rare coins, unique jewelry and a baseball signed by the 1985 Chicago Cubs are among thousands of items people will be able to bid on at a live auction on Aug. 17 in Springfield. NBC 5’s Ash-har Quraishi reports.

A misidentification at a Chicago hospital led to a family taking a man they thought was their loved one off life support – but that man wasn’t who they thought he was, a new lawsuit states.

A misidentification at a Chicago hospital led to a family taking a man they thought was their loved one off life support – but that man wasn’t who they thought he was, a new lawsuit states. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports.

About $5 million has been awarded to the family of a 37-year-old black man fatally shot nearly five years ago by a white Chicago police officer.

The city of Chicago has paid $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by relatives of a man who died from an asthma attack while in police custody.

Two weeks after a jury awarded a record $44.7 million in the case of an off-duty Chicago Police officer who shot his buddy in the head, lawyers have filed a lawsuit involving the same officer in another shooting — this one fatal.

A Cook County Circuit Court judge ruled Tuesday that not allowing members of the public to speak at full Chicago City Council meetings violated the Illinois Open Meeting Act, the Chicago Tribune reports.