Five inmates, including two accused murderers, have died at the Cook County jail in Chicago since late last month, but opinions about whether the spike is an anomaly or a symptom of something more troubling depend on who you talk to.
An organized smash-and-grab burglary crew that raided a Magnificent Mile clothing store last month is responsible for similar crimes in the South Loop and the suburbs, Chicago police said Tuesday.
Aisha Barton is remembering her son, Jamel Henton, as “a 6’10” gentle giant who was kind and respectful to everyone” after he was killed while trying to defuse an altercation in Chicago.
Prosecutors said a Chicago man killed two people in about five hours at Christmastime, but they only charged him with one of the crimes. His girlfriend, who’s not accused of personally killing anyone, is charged with the other.
A woman who is interviewing to become a Chicago police officer faces felony charges for allegedly hitting an actual Chicago police officer in the face with a phone.
Two gang intervention workers, one of whom is also a Safe Passage worker, sold a gun to an undercover Chicago police officer during a long-term narcotics investigation, prosecutors said Saturday.
A Chicago man faces felony charges after he allegedly groped a woman on the Blue Line, only to be pinned to the ground by a good Samaritan who held him until police arrived.
A 16-year-old “Kia boy” murdered a man and tried to kill a second victim in Chicago in October while he had felony cases pending in juvenile court, prosecutors said Saturday