Month: April 2025

A Chicago alderman has changed his proposal to impose an earlier teen curfew in the downtown area. The new idea from Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd) would allow police commanders to impose emergency curfews for unaccompanied minors at any hour and at any location in the city.

Prosecutors have filed charges in connection with the shooting of a 15-year-old during a “teen takeover” in Streeterville on March 28. The accused gunman is 14 years old.

Federal agents in Chicago seized 18 pounds of deadly horse tranquilizer from China that may have been destined for use in street drugs, officials said Wednesday.

The Illinois House shot down legislation Thursday that would have allowed some people incarcerated for crimes they committed when they were under 21 to become eligible for release.

Two brothers have been charged with the armed sexual assaults of two women in 2016 after one of the men recently applied to become a Chicago police officer and admitted to the crimes during a lie detector exam.

A Venezuelan migrant is facing armed robbery charges after he allegedly robbed a Streeterville woman at gunpoint just three days after being released from electronic monitoring in a different case.