At her swearing-in ceremony six months ago, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke promised a tougher approach to ...

Antonio McDowell was the 51st individual to be exonerated in a case involving the misconduct of disgraced Chicago Police ...

Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett will donate $50,000 to a local nonprofit organization to settle a city lawsuit that ...

Elected officials and activists blame everything from too few police to street design for stubbornly high totals of fatal car ...

Charles Green, 44, has been charged with first-degree murder and aggravated arson in the garage fire that killed Meyer on the ...

Fourth-year student Sophie Tedesco has been awarded the University of Chicago’s highest undergraduate honor, the Hugo F.

Cyril Willemin, 50, is charged with one count of aggravated criminal sexual assault, one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, and two counts of criminal sexual abuse.

Attorneys before the Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed on one point: A Chicago-area judge flouted the state’s ...

Since the start of 2019, more than 1,040 people have died of injuries suffered in Chicago motor vehicle crashes. Of those, ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Velma Lewis is one of hundreds of Black homeowners a year in Cook County who have lost ... and Englewood in the city of Chicago and in Chicago Heights ...

Chicago police arrested all three men, who are now being held in the Cook County jail and face charges there. The Lake County state’s attorney’s office charged them in connection with the box ...

Tiffany Henyard, former Dolton mayor, is ordered to appear in court for allegedly failing to produce records. The FBI ...