HUD Secretary kicks off national tour in Chicago

Mar. 9, 2012
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U.S. Government seals $25 billion mortgage settlement

Feb. 10, 2012
On Thursday, federal and state prosecutors reached a $25 billion settlement with banks over foreclosures.  So, what now?

Facebook, FTC settle over privacy

Nov. 29, 2011
NEW YORK — Facebook is settling with the Federal Trade Commission over charges it deceived consumers with its privacy settings to get people to share more personal information than they originally agreed to.The FTC had charged that the social network told people they could keep the information they

Former Cook County Jail inmates lining up for cash

Dec. 28, 2010
Thousands of people who were locked up in the Cook County Jail are lining up to get some cash. Cook County recently agreed to pay $55 million to inmates who were subjected to mass strip searches at the jail.

Taxing the wrongfully convicted

Nov. 24, 2010
A recent IRS decision is good news for wrongfully convicted people in Illinois, and across the country. The decision came in the case of Chicagoan Darby Tillis.

Cook County to pay $55 million to inmates at county jail

Nov. 16, 2010
Cook County is paying out $55 million to people who were strip searched while being processed into the county jail. The settlement follows a trial from the summer of 2009 in which a jury found that the Cook County Sheriff's department violated the rights of thousands of prisoners admitted to th