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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.

A  Chicago man who wore a neon yellow “peacekeepers” vest helped a group of people beat and rob a motorist in Little Village on Friday night, according to a Chicago Police Department report.

A woman who works for a contractor at the Cook County jail tried to smuggle drug-soaked papers into the facility so they could be cut up and sold to inmates, officials said.

The Chicago man charged with possessing a pill-making machine and $1.2 million worth of meth and fentanyl faces new charges for allegedly driving a stolen car toward federal agents who tried to arrest him.

With a suicide rate higher than other big cities, Chicago’s police union has established a mental health wellness center for its members.

Exactly six years after he was shot and nearly killed by a Chicago police officer that he pinned between two cars, Kayin Wise was back in court Wednesday to face new charges.

A Chicago man faces sexual assault charges after Facebook presented his profile in the alleged victim’s “People You May Know” section, prosecutors say.