Gary Marx

As he stepped outside the rear of the Chase Bank branch, John Prisco chuckled at a man wearing an obviously fake black beard and a goofy fisherman's hat. But then...

Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart is pushing ahead with a plan to transform Bond Court in an effort to better screen pretrial detainees and reduce chronic overcrowding at County Jail....

A South Side man was charged Monday evening with the weekend murder of Chicago Police Officer Nathaniel Taylor Jr. Court records show that the suspect, Lamar Cooper, was convicted of...

Twenty years ago, Howard Mui emigrated from China to Chicago, where he opened a small store in the Chinatown neighborhood selling telephone cards, trinkets, Rubik's Cubes, kites and other items....

John Lambert dropped out of high school in his freshman year, battled addictions to cocaine and alcohol, and was in and out of treatment centers as well as court for...

John Lambert dropped out of high school in his freshman year, battled addictions to cocaine and alcohol, and was in and out of treatment centers as well as court for...

Erica Barrera was speeding down the street when she suddenly veered right and slammed head-on into a light pole, cutting the car in half and killing herself and three passengers....

In another blow for the troubled Cook County Jail, a federal judge has ruled as unconstitutional the jail's practice of strip-searching male detainees ordered released from custody. The ruling on...

Jesse Guajardo choked back tears on the witness stand in federal court as he abandoned his second family once and for all. He had grown up in the Latin Kings...

The federal jury that convicted the second-ranking leader of the Latin Kings street gang of drug conspiracy Tuesday relied on his secretly recorded words in making the decision, a juror...