One of the sons of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has begun plea negotiations with federal prosecutors in Chicago on sweeping narcotics trafficking charges.
Overnight, a man was fatally shot in Rogers Park, a boy was fatally shot in Gage Park and a man was fatally shot in Auburn Gresham
The shooting occurred minutes before a Lil Durk concert was set to begin at the arena.
Opening statements in the landmark corruption case against former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and his longtime confidant were expected to kick off Monday after completion of an often-tedious jury selection process that has stretched on for nearly two weeks.
A driver was cited after an Illinois State Police trooper was killed while on-duty in a downstate car crash Friday afternoon. Corey Thompsen, the 28-year-old trooper, was driving a motorcycle while finishing a traffic enforcement detail just before 3:45 p.m., ISP director Brendan Kelly said in a Saturday statement. Thompson was traveling east on East Leverett Road, approaching 1300 E. in Champaign County. Helen Torres, 32, of Thomasboro, was driving south in a truck on County Road 1300 E. and stopped at the intersection with Leverett Road, Kelly said. Torres then pulled into the road, striking Thompsen’s motorcycle, he said. […]
A man’s death was ruled a homicide Saturday a week after he was found in a Grand Crossing alley with severe burns all over his body, according to Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Officers found the man, who hasn’t yet been identified and age is unknown, in an alley in the 6700 block of South Prairie Avenue around 5 p.m. on Oct. 12, police said. He was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition, where he later died Friday morning. The medical examiner’s office ruled his death a homicide, caused by “craniocerebral, […]
A Cook County judge on Saturday ordered detainment for a South Side man whom authorities claimed fled to Mexico after shooting two Chicago police officers in the Back of the Yards neighborhood in 2017. Edgar Barron, now 25, was arrested Thursday at his residence in the same neighborhood where authorities said he opened fire on […]
A 49-year-old man was fatally stabbed Friday night during an argument on a CTA bus on the West Side in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly after 8 p.m., the victim was involved in an argument with a woman on a CTA bus in the 200 block of South Cicero Avenue. The […]
A man was fatally shot Friday afternoon outside an Uptown restaurant, police said. Police said the man, who was 45, was sitting in a vehicle in a restaurant parking lot on the 1000 block of West Wilson Avenue around 3:45 p.m. when a pair of men came up to him. One of the approaching men drew a gun and fired, police said. The man was taken in critical condition to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, police said. He died around 5:20 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. His identity wasn’t immediately released. No one was in custody […]
The U.S. government’s road safety agency is investigating Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” system after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian.