For a second year in a row, the @CookCountyTreas Office is late sending out thousands of property tax bills and refunds – leaving taxpayers uncertain about when they’ll pay and how much they’ll owe.

📣 📣 Did you get your tickets yet? Spots are filling up fast for "Beyond the Byline" next Thursday! Here's what you can expect from our celebration of investigative journalism 🕵🏾: ✅ 22nd Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Awards for Investigative Reporting 🗞️ ✅ Meet the real people impacted by our journalism and hear their stories ✅ A conversation with ✨ @errinhaines, editor-at-large of @19thnews ✨ ✅ Happy Hour 🥂 and a closing reception Get your tickets for a $50 donation here: bit.ly/4triTgP

There are 31 mental health courts in Illinois. Their goal is to help people battling mental illness break the cycles of incarceration that they sometimes end up in. We wanted to know if, and how well, they work and why critics say it's just a band-aid that doesn't solve the underlying crisis. Reported by our @grace_hauck and Andrew Adams with @TheVoiceofJosh with @mindsitenews.

Read our full investigation and check out what's happening in your county here: illinoisanswers.org/2026/04/…

GRAPHIC WARNING: Here's a side-by-side view of the newly released body camera footage of the moments leading up to and after Chicago police officer Krystal Rivera was shot by her partner, Officer Carlos Baker. The footage released Friday shows that Baker ran up a stairwell after his gun went off when they encountered an armed man, leaving Rivera bleeding for nearly 90 seconds from a gunshot he initially said had been fired by someone else. He later told an investigator he would have risked his life to help Rivera, saying, “I will die for her.” Illinois Answers Project, in partnership with @Suntimes, has covered this case extensively. Our coverage has raised questions about how Baker was assigned to the tactical team with Rivera, given his troubled work record, which includes accidentally firing his Taser during another pursuit. Read our reporting: bit.ly/4tTljEI #KrystalRivera #CarlosBaker @Chicago_Police #CPD #Shooting

Chicago police officer Carlos Baker shot and killed his partner Officer Krystal Rivera in 2025 — the first officer-on-officer shooting in nearly 40 years. We, in partnership with @Suntimes, have covered this case extensively. Our coverage has raised questions about how Baker was assigned to the tactical team with his partner, Krystal Rivera, given his troubled work record, which includes accidentally firing his Taser during another pursuit. We partnered again with the Sun-Times to fight CPD in court and get the body camera footage of both officers released. The videos and audio recordings of Chicago Police Officer Carlos Baker’s later interview with investigators examining the shooting provide the clearest view yet of what happened. bit.ly/4tTljEI

A gun turned over to @Chicago_Police to be destroyed was instead stolen from inside a police station in 2023 and then used in three shootings in Auburn Gresham and South Shore. @SunTimes joined us in a lawsuit against CPD and fought for more than a year to obtain the records detailing CPD's internal investigation into the stolen gun. We won the case and the records were released. As a result, we learned the department closed its internal investigation without charging anyone, disciplining any officers, and without interviewing several officers who were present when the gun was taken. Read about our findings: bit.ly/4cGAxqP #Chicago #CPD #ChicagoPolice #Gun #Stolen #Crime

BEYOND THE BYLINE: We hope you can join us on May 7 for a celebration of impactful journalism. Our featured speaker is award-winning journalist @errinhaines, editor-at-large for @19thnews, president of @NABJ and contributor at @MSNOWNews. Haines has built a career reporting on and shaping the national conversation around #race, #gender and #politics. Her storied career includes breaking the story of #BreonnaTaylor's 2020 killing and being the first journalist to interview former Vice President @KamalaHarris when her VP nomination was announced. Get your tickets to attend our conversation with Haines and the rest of the Beyond the Byline lineup here: bit.ly/4triTgP @NABJCC

We're excited to announce that @nhannahjones will be our featured guest at the 20th Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Awards! Join us for a night of dynamic and thought-provoking conversations followed by this year's awards. Learn more and buy tickets here: bettergov.org/event/join-us-…

UPDATE: Submissions for the Driehaus Awards have been extended to March 18! Submit your stories here for the chance to win up to $12,000: bettergov.formstack.com/form…