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Cash-strapped suburbs with cops patrolling some of Cook County’s most dangerous streets struggle to retain officers but they also promote others with checkered pasts.

A citywide program to keep elevators safe is broken when it comes to public housing for the city’s poor, Part Two of a BGA/WBEZ investigation reveals.

Scroll over an interactive map to find all 113 police shootings and click for summaries and public records in the BGA/WBEZ database.

The Chicago Housing Authority paid millions of dollars to private contractors on building upgrades without addressing an aging fleet of elevators, Part Three of a BGA/WBEZ investigation finds.

Problems persist a decade after discovery of chronic radioactive leaks at Exelon plants.

Hear from CHA tenants who say a functioning elevator is more than a luxury.

A government body’s own staff is silenced in favor of arguments made by the power plant owners it oversees.

Use this database to check the status of CHA residents’ elevators — failed inspections, violations, 911 calls and maintenance records.

Employees at the nation’s nuclear power plants filed nearly 700 whistleblower complaints with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in recent years. It upheld zero.

Browse and search more than 500,000 recorded residential recycling contaminations in Chicago since 2013.