The now-former dean of Valparaiso University’s College of Business was charged this week with misdemeanor battery and is no longer employed by the school but his defense attorney said the case is rooted in his client’s role as a whistleblower over the university’s finances.
The Indiana Court of Appeals recently upheld a former Chicago man’s 85-year prison sentence for rape, child molesting and domestic battery in Dyer.
Tiffany Henyard’s boyfriend Kamal Woods is seeking $10 million in damages, which attorney Michael McGrath said is “ridiculous.”
Former Proud Boys national leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested Friday near the U.S. Capitol on a charge that he assaulted a woman protesting a gathering attended by Tarrio and others who received presidential pardons for crimes stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in the nation’s capital.
An 11-year-old boy was found critically stabbed Thursday night in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side, Chicago police said. Shortly before 8:15 p.m., officers responded to a call of someone stabbed in the 200 block of West 66th Street and found an 11-year-old boy with multiple stab wounds to the chest. He […]
An Amber Alert was issued shortly after for an 8-year-old boy from the same location, but was canceled after he was found unharmed, authorities said.
A 13-year-old boy was among two victims shot on a CTA Red Line train in the Armour Square neighborhood on the South Side, Chicago police said.
The future of the roughly 20 people in the Gompers Park encampment remains uncertain after a planned rehousing event was delayed from Feb. 24 to March 5 because of a possible freeze to federal funds.
A firefighter was in good condition Thursday night after he became disoriented fighting an extra-alarm blaze at a furniture store in the Roseland neighborhood, according to the Chicago Fire Department. The fire appeared to have broken out in the basement of Elegant Furniture and Linen, in the 11200 block of South Michigan Avenue, around 6 […]
A Lansing, Illinois, man is charged in Indiana with fatally stabbing his roommate.