Almost five years after 19-year-old Charles Baird was shot outside a Circle K gas station in New Lenox — the village’s first homicide in two decades — the trial for a Harvey man facing murder charges began Tuesday. Baird’s mother, Jennifer, has maintained a memorial at the Circle K gas station on Nelson Road since […]
A girl testified Tuesday she heard a “gunshot,” then later saw her mom “asleep.”
More than 12 years after 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton was shot and killed in a case that drew international attention, a judge Tuesday once again ordered her alleged shooter held in jail while awaiting trial.
Rancor among the staff at the Civilian Office of Police Accountability was the driving force behind the recent effort to remove the agency’s former chief administrator, Andrea Kersten, records obtained by the Tribune show.
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.
Jose Ruiz-Crespin, 22, faces felony charges of attempted second-degree murder and aggravated driving under the influence, authorities say.
A federal jury in Chicago on Monday awarded $120 million in damages to two wrongfully convicted men who spent more than 15 years in prison.
Federal charges were unsealed Monday against a suburban Chicago businessman accused of using phony documents and forged signatures to create false immigration narratives for clients seeking asylum in the U.S.
A Hobart man was charged in the death of his wife due to strangulation.
The Crown Point Fire Department Dive and Rescue Team was called to Ridge Road in Gary for a potential drowning Monday, the agency confirmed.