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Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke, center, walks from a press conference at Chicago police headquarters on Feb. 26, 2025. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Cook County state’s attorney’s office to expand pilot that allows police to directly file some gun charges

April 5, 2025 at 7:30 a.m.

The Cook County state's attorney's office is expanding a pilot program that lets Chicago police to directly file charges in some gun cases.

A prayer for Nick Barraco is seen outside of St. Barnabas Church on June 26, 2024, before a vigil for Barraco, who was seriously injured in an attack by four men at his restaurant in Chicago’s Mount Greenwood. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Suburban men charged in beating at Mount Greenwood pizza place stand trial

April 4, 2025 at 10:20 a.m.

Nicholas Barraco testified Thursday at the trial of four men accused of attacking him, some of his staff and a patron outside his restaurant.

Brittany Hill's father, James Hill, left, sits with her daughter Ja-Miley, 7; her mother, Verniece Hill; and her son, Amarion, 13, on April 2, 2025. Two men were convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder in the death of Brittany Hill, who was 24 when she was shot in May 2019 while shielding her baby, Ja-Miley Jones.(Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

A baby smiled and waved at her mother’s killers. Nearly 6 years later, a judge finds pair guilty.

April 2, 2025 at 7:45 p.m.

Judge finds two men guilty in videotaped slaying of Brittany Hill, whose daughter waved at killers in North Austin attack.

Investigator Frank Anson places an electronic monitoring device on a detainee before they're released inside the electronic monitoring discharge facility in the basement of Division V at the Cook County Jail, April 12, 2018, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Contentious overhaul of electronic-monitoring program in Cook County arriving after brewing for years

March 31, 2025 at 9:07 a.m.

After months of planning and discussion, the Cook County sheriff’s office starting Tuesday will no longer accept new electronic monitoring participants, marking the beginning of a shift in one way...

‘A vicious, vicious response:’ Judge orders detention for woman charged with killing girlfriend on Red Line platform

March 21, 2025 at 4:33 p.m.

Woman charged and ordered held pending trial in Tuesday's fatal shooting on CTA Red Line platform.

Teone Jones was fatally stabbed in the abdomen and back at a residence in the 7100 block of South Eberhart Avenue in Chicago on Feb. 20, 2025. (Family photo)

Prosecutors detail fatal February stabbing of Teone Jones, attack on two sons

March 21, 2025 at 7:07 p.m.

Marcus Bausley ordered detained in alleged stabbing of his 33-year-old former girlfriend and her two children.

A photo of Zulma Daniela Calderon Pacheco, 21, is displayed March 18, 2025, at the offices of Cavanagh Sorich Law Group while her family announced a lawsuit against Mansion Live and a security guard charged in her death. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Family of woman shot at Stone Park nightclub files lawsuit as suspect appears in court

March 18, 2025 at 3:52 p.m.

Zulma Daniela Calderon Pacheco, 21, of Chicago, was fatally shot March 8 at the Mansion Live nightclub in Stone Park by a security guard, officials said.

Photos of Zulma Daniela Calderon Pacheco, 21, were displayed, March 13, 2025, at Caribe Funeral Home in Chicago during her visitation. Calderon Pacheco was killed when shots werer fired during an altercation at Mansion Live nightclub in Stone Park. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Chicago man charged in shooting death at suburban nightclub

March 17, 2025 at 5:20 p.m.

Kevin Henley, Jr., 35, is charged with involuntary manslaughter and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, police said.

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke in her office at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on March 13, 2025. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

With her first 100 days behind her, State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke talks gun policies and electronic monitoring

March 18, 2025 at 6:09 a.m.

With several months in office behind her, Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke is setting a different tone for her post.

Then-Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot attends a news conference announcing proposed changes to Soldier Field on July 25, 2022, at the stadium. (Erin Hooley/baiduhai)

‘This experience is very traumatizing’: Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot testifies about death threat she received in 2022

March 13, 2025 at 5:07 p.m.

Growing occasionally emotional, former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday testified during a bench trial that she was disturbed and traumatized by a profane and racist death threat sent to...

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