A veteran prosecutor who played a key role in the trials of ex-Ald. Edward Burke and former Speaker Michael Madigan will be the next head of the U.S. attorney’s office’s Public Corruption and Organized Crime Section.
In the trial of a Harvey man charged in a 2020 shooting of Charles Baird, 19, witnesses and DNA connect him to the crime scene.
A day after at least 250 people protested at Federal Plaza the arrest and possible deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, civil rights groups in Chicago called for his release.
A 12-year-old child was airlifted to a Chicago hospital in the wake of a Munster house fire on Tuesday night.
A Lake County jury deliberated for less than two hours on Wednesday before finding a Gary man guilty of fatally shooting a woman while her children were in the next room.
A group of offenders broke the front glass doors and multiple windows at the 4700 block of West Foster Avenue around 4 a.m., police said.
South and southwest suburban crime reports from police and court reports and news releases.
A 25-year-old man was shot outside of O’Hare International Airport early Wednesday morning following an argument between two people, according to Chicago police.
At least 250 people gathered Tuesday afternoon in Chicago’s Federal Plaza for an “emergency protest” against the arrest and possible deportation of an activist who helped lead Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian encampment in New York. Demonstrators rallied behind signs that read “Protecting students is freedom of speech” and called for Mahmoud Khalil’s release. One speaker drew […]
Chicago Fire Department investigators say that unattended cooking caused the extra-alarm fire in the West Ridge neighborhood last month that killed a 6-year-old boy and injured his mother along with two firefighters, officials said. The fast-moving Valentine’s Day fire engulfed much of the multi-unit apartment building at 2744 W. Granville Ave., leaving Milan Campbell, 6, […]