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A Cook County judge was surprised that she was hearing Trevale Robinson’s case in misdemeanor court, but a proscutor told her that the state’s attorney’s office rejected felony carjacking charges.

Top Chicago police leaders have taken days, even weeks off while canceling or restricting days off for cops under their command, records show.

Justin Gamino was shot and killed by last week by a man who received a plea deal sentence of just two years for his third gun felony, according to prosecutors. The accused man was still on parole at the time of the murder.

Chicago police are investigating after a 36-year-old woman was reportedly found handcuffed and chained to a wall inside an abandoned home Saturday evening in West Pullman.

A two-time felon drove a gunman around the West Side for 15 minutes to find someone to kill in a revenge murder, prosecutors say. At the time, he was on bail for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Across Chicago’s downtown and North Side, every police district’s staffing levels are at 5-year lows while major crime reports are setting new highs. Here’s what the numbers show.

Antonio Gonzalez ran over a Chicago cop who was trying to take him into custody for questioning regarding a murder, prosecutors said. It happened Monday, three weeks after he cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet and went missing in a pending felony case.

Twenty-time convicted felon Randall Brown became thirty-time convicted felon Randall Brown last week when he pleaded guilty to stealing ten Moped-style scooters from parking spots across the North Side during the summer of 2020.

Kendall Irvin was on felony bail when he shot at a woman whose apartment he just burglarized, prosecutors say.

Prosecutors say electronic monitoring participant Theodis Thomas went to Wisconsin while he was supposed to be taking care of “essential” needs. He got arrested there.

Chicago police have detained a 19-year-old man for questioning in connection with a series of armed robberies that has stunned the North Side this month, including the vicious robbery and shooting of Dakotah Earley in Lincoln Park, according to law enforcement sources.