Month: May 2023

Adam Hollingsworth, who rode to 15 minutes of fame as Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s “Census Cowboy” three years ago, only to fall from glory by riding his horse to exhaustion on the Dan Ryan Expressway, is charged with battering Hammond police who confronted him about riding his horse down Indianapolis Boulevard.

Alton Mills, whose mandatory life sentence was commuted by Pres. Barack Obama in 2015, is now accused of fatally shooting a woman on an expressway outside Chicago.

Prosecutors say a parolee shot a carjacking victim in the leg because the man did not surrender his car fast enough during a hijacking last week in Chicago.

Illinois vehicle owners will no longer be able to order license plates bearing the letters CPDK, shorthand for “Chicago Police Department Killer,” the secretary of state’s office said Thursday.

Prosecutors say a Chicago man knocked a T-Mobile cellular tower out of service by stealing the tower’s metal wiring.

Newly-minted Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson had been in office less than 12 hours when his security detail arrested a man for illegal gun possession near the mayor’s inaugural ball Monday evening.