Linnet Myers

A gang member was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday for the murder of a 15-year-old girl, a crime a judge called an ''absolute tragedy of gang membership.'' Mark...

A Chicago police officer testified Tuesday that former Kelvyn Park High School principal James G. Moffat once asked him not to press charges against a student who had been arrested...

The chairman of a blue-ribbon commission contending that the Cook County Criminal Court is staffed with too many unskilled judges called Thursday for a system of merit selection, saying it...

A 56-year-old man with a long history of child molestation convictions was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison for sexually abusing three Bridgeport-area boys. In arguing for a harsh...

Workers hammered late into Wednesday evening to board up the fire-damaged structure of what had been a well-maintained South Side building, while residents who survived the blaze that killed seven...

An unusually light voter turnout, coupled with complaints and confusion over unopened polling places and election judges who failed to report for duty, marked the early hours of balloting in...

A Chicago police officer shot by his partner`s gun during a drug arrest remained in critical condition Tuesday after undergoing a special oxygen treatment. Jay Brunkella, 39, a highly decorated...

A Cook County Circuit Court judge Thursday refused to name a special prosecutor to investigate possible fraud in the collection of signatures on petitions favoring a November referendum on a...

The Illinois Appellate Court ordered a new trial Tuesday for a man convicted of bludgeoning to death two elderly clerks in a Loop shoe store, ruling that the trial-court judge...

A North Side janitor testified Wednesday that his curiosity about the type of garbage bags he found in the alley dumpster at the building where he worked led to the...