Dan Hinkel

The Illinois Appellate Court has dealt another loss to Lake County prosecutors in their battle to hold Bennie Starks responsible for allegedly battering a woman, even though he has been...

A new study on guns seized by Chicago police shows that suburban gun shops are a main source of guns used in crimes in the city. The research shows that...

An armed robber demanded that two victims on the West Side give him their shorts, prosecutors said. Twice on Saturday morning in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, David A. Ray,...

Police confiscated a trove of weapons including nunchucks, brass knuckles, a butterfly knife and a stun gun from a man who claimed falsely to be a Cook County sheriff's deputy,...

A study of guns seized by Chicago police shows that suburban gun shops are a main source of guns used in crimes in the city. The research shows that some...

The operator of a Chicago scrap metal company is charged with buying sewer covers and sidewalk grates pried from city streets by thieves. After his arrest Saturday morning at Industrial...