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Paul Evans, 17, was ordered held on $500,000 bond Thursday for allegedly beating, nearly to death, one of the men accused of killing his 14-year-old sister. Cook County Criminal Court...

A Cook County Jail inmate, who had been convicted of two drug-related murders in Robbins in 1985, hanged himself with a bedsheet in his cell Tuesday, five hours before he...

A South Side man was convicted Monday in the 1984 rape of a 17-year-old girl accosted while she walked home from a department store. Curtis Hall, 34, of 625 E....

Prosecutors said Monday that they will seek the death penalty against John Pasch Jr., the North Side man charged with killing his landlord and a police officer and then holding...

A Cook County Circuit Court judge ordered polling places in 43 Chicago precincts to remain open for two additional hours Tuesday, but ruled that ballots cast late in 24 of...

The curbside cocaine dealers of East Humboldt Park were so much in demand that their clients caused traffic jams. The bold dealers even met with frustrated homeowners who tried to...

A Criminal Court judge Friday ordered the University of Chicago`s Billings Hospital to release its records of a malpractice suit settlement made with Clarence McClain last month, a source said....

A former employee of a North Side nursing home pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing about $5,000 from poor elderly residents of the home. Alphonso Frazier, 24, of 1521 W. 89th...

Twenty-five people were indicted on charges of selling police investigators small amounts of narcotics on several occasions during undercover operations aimed at two street gangs, Cook County State`s Atty. Richard...

The 17-year-old youth who shot and killed high school basketball star Benjamin Wilson received the maximum 40-year prison term Friday, despite his lawyer`s argument that prosecutors wouldn`t have pushed for...