Month: May 2023

The man whose shooting by Chicago police officers sparked misinformation and widespread looting in August 2020 was found guilty Wednesday on 8 felonies, including four counts of attempted murder of police officers.

A former school janitor in Chicago has been sentenced to 14 years for sexually assaulting a child and, separately, for trying to sexually assault a woman at a gas station while her young son was nearby.

Two Chicago men who were arrested for trying to steal a Kia together last summer are now accused of trying to rob a man at gunpoint together on Monday — just 3 days after one of them pleaded guilty in the Kia case.

A man who lives across the street from Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was held without bail Monday after prosecutors accused him of beating a woman to death with a baseball bat inside his home,

After officials said a man wearing a yellow “peacekeeper” vest was among a group of offenders who severely beat and robbed a driver in Little Village on Friday, a proponent of the anti-violence programs argued that the accused man had simply “mishandled the stress” of working as a peacekeeper.