Jeff Coen is a deputy metro editor overseeing the Tribune’s criminal justice report and GA desk. With more than 25 years of experience, he was previously an investigative and enterprise reporter for the paper, and covered both Chicago’s main criminal courthouse and U.S. District Court, including both trials of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Chicago police officers are used to flooding hot spots on the South and West sides to fight the street gang violence that drives most of the mayhem in the city,...
When Chicago's FBI boss, Rob Grant, leaned toward a microphone at a NATO briefing for business leaders, the talk to that point had been about summit events and the city's...
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration pulled the plug Tuesday on the only NATO protest planned for a workday in the Loop business district, revoking permission for a May 18 Daley Plaza...
Lake Shore Drive and Interstate Highway 55 near McCormick Place will be closed during the NATO summit, federal and Chicago officials announced today. In addition to the highways, the security...
Lake Shore Drive and Interstate Highway 55 near McCormick Place will be closed during the NATO summit, federal and Chicago officials announced today. In addition to the highways, the security...
Chicago's NATO summit planners gave their boilerplate highlights of the May 20-21 event at one of their final community meetings Thursday, but South Side residents had much more direct and...
In a series of May Day rallies and marches Tuesday, police and protesters alike got a miniature glimpse of what the NATO weekend in Chicago might look like, though officials...
In a series of May Day rallies and marches Tuesday, police and protesters alike got a miniature glimpse of what the NATO weekend in Chicago might look like, though officials...
Occupy protesters, anti-war demonstrators and union supporters staged a series of May Day rallies and marches today with little disruption to the work day in Chicago's business district. Protest groups...
The Chicago host committee for the NATO summit said Monday that the event would be a bigger economic boon than some of the city's best-known trade shows, but the rosy...