
Olivia Olander
State government reporter @chicagotribune, used to cover labor @politico
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Records detail decrepit conditions
Investigators find maggots, rat feces and a body in a bathroom
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Records detail decrepit conditions
Investigators find maggots, rat feces and a body in a bathroom

Pritzker accepts teachers’ backing
Governor casts doubt on CPS funding push, OKs nod by suburban union

A failure to close funeral home
Missed opportunities preceded discovery of bodies at facility

‘Unimaginable’
Agonized families await answers after remains recovered from funeral home on South Side

‘I WANT TO SEE SOME JUSTICE’
Families, officials call for change amid probe into funeral home where dozens of decomposing bodies were found

Will state deliver $150M for CPS?
Support exists among lawmakers, but path to make it happen steep

Pritzker signs cellphone ban for public, charter schools

Staff cut at troubled Choate facility
State plans to lay off 250 workers at downstate mental health center mired in abuse allegations

2 progressive, independent candidates kicked off ballot
Challenges came from people tied to Garcia and handpicked successor

State wins delay on food aid penalty
One-year reprieve doesn't erase threat to budget as eventual share now estimated at $550 million

GOP candidates struggle to raise campaign cash
Bailey raises about $1.33M while spending more than $1.28M

Bill seeks transparency on sales of group homes
Measure to add oversight on private equity firms awaits Pritzker’s signing

Bears looking to cobble together Ill. legislation
Pritzker: Team eyeing blend of 2 bills that may pass legislature

Pritzker OKs $56B state budget
Spending plan factors in gains from gas sales tax, election-year breaks, but stadium questions loom

THE PRIDE AND JOY OF INDIANA?
Bears close in on Hammond: After lawmakers leave Springfield without voting on a stadium deal, the team says it will proceed with plans across the border. But the door hasn't fully shut on the Prairie State

Lawmakers close in on budget deal
$56 billion plan backed by gas tax windfall and some election-year tax breaks

Racing to finalize $55 billion budget
Bears stadium talks take back seat on final day of legislative session

Uncertainty marks session’s last weekend
Illinois lawmakers debate Bears stadium, gas tax and budget

Pritzker optimistic for deal but knocks Johnson for ‘no plan’

Shooting reveals holes in system
As alleged cop killer put monitor in ‘sleep mode,’ hours dragged

Panel reaches final stretch of Midway Blitz hearings
Katie Abraham’s mother says she has ‘had enough’ of federal officials invoking daughter’s memory

1 cop killed, 1 hurt in shooting
Police: Officers shot by man they brought to Swedish Hospital; suspect in custody

Dems want redistricting, 'millionaire tax' on ballot

Pritzker’s housing proposals: More four-flats, looser rules
Plan would ease zoning restrictions that limit residential density
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Paperboy tracks bylines on the front pages of major US and UK broadsheets. This page shows every front-page story attributed to Olivia Olander in our archive, based on bylines extracted from front-page images by AI. It covers only front-page stories — not the full output of this journalist. Data begins April 2026.
