Month: April 2023

Chicago police officers who responded to a ShotSpotter gunfire detection alert last week found a 43-year-old woman dead in a South Side alley. On Friday, prosecutors charged a man with her murder.

A man who’s on parole for illegally possessing and firing a handgun helped rob eight convenience stores in Chicago and the suburbs last week, prosecutors said Thursday.

The sheriff’s office this week enacted new rules to fight the smuggling of drug-laced papers into the Cook County jail after investigators discovered contaminated papers among documents that two private defense attorneys brought to the jail for client meetings, officials said.

Prosecutors accused a Chicago woman on Thursday of trying to shoot and kill another woman while on bail for a pending attempted murder case that involves nearly identical allegations.

Four men are facing felony charges for allegedly operating a clearinghouse for shoplifted merchandise from a convenience store on Chicago’s West Side.