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An Indianapolis man drove all the way to Chicago with a gun, showed up at his ex’s house, and began shooting, striking an innocent bystander in the foot, prosecutors say.

Jamal Turner of Chicago is the last person who will ever be ordered jailed in lieu of a cash bond payment in Cook County.

Prosecutors say a Chicago man broke into his ex-girlfriend’s home intending to kill her as she slept, but he mistakenly killed a 17-year-old girl who happened to be staying in the woman’s home.

A man convicted of attempted murder in 1994 is now charged with battering a fallen Chicago police officer with a wooden flagpole during Mexican Independence Day festivities this weekend.

A California man has been sentenced to 20 years for fatally shooting a man on the North Side of Chicago during a dispute about a dice game.

Barely a month after a Cook County judge released a man from electronic monitoring to await trial for a felony gun and domestic battery case, the man is back in jail, charged with three counts of attempted murder in a domestic incident.

A 21-year-old man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for murdering a transgender woman in her Chicago home three years ago.

Melvin Jordan, on bail awaiting a new trial for a 2005 murder case, is charged with trying to kill two Chicago firefighters who responded to his home.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says the county continues to struggle with car thefts and violent crime at levels higher than pre-pandemic levels.