Calling domestic violence ‘unique in nature,’ judge reduces sentence for woman who shot alleged abuser
A judge reduced the prison sentence of a Chicago woman who said she shot and killed her abuser in 2001, shaving off more than three years.
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Changes coming to Cook County criminal court in 2025
Within the Cook County legal system, 2024 in many ways marked a shift in approach that will be noticeable in local courtrooms.
Convictions in Hadiya Pendleton slaying to remain overturned after Illinois Supreme Court dismisses appeal
An Illinois appeals court decision that overturned the convictions for a man accused of fatally shooting 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton in 2013 will stand after the state's highest court found that...
Two Illinois convicts among 37 whose death sentences were commuted by President Joe Biden
A Chicago podiatrist who fatally shot a patient who was cooperating in a federal fraud probe of his Medicare billings was among 37 people who had their federal death sentences...
Electronic monitoring in Cook County: Officials poised to make changes but few details available
Experts and county stakeholders have long criticized parallel electronic monitoring programs as wasteful, but soon Cook County won't be one of the only jurisdictions in the country that splits resources...
Judge convicts shooter in slaying of 7-year-old Natalia Wallace but acquits alleged getaway driver
A judge convicted a man of shooting and killing Natalia Wallace on the Fourth of July in 2020, but acquitted the alleged getaway driver.
Former city employee, ward boss to Ald. Gardiner pleads guilty to gun charge
A former city employee and ward boss for Ald. Jim Gardiner pleaded guilty on Thursday to a gun charge after prosecutors said he tried to sell an antique machine gun...
Appeals court overturns conviction against former Northwestern professor accused in knife slaying of boyfriend
An Illinois appeals court overturned the murder conviction for Wyndham Lathem, who was convicted in the gruesome killing of his boyfriend, ruling that a Cook County judge unlawfully barred him...
To protect ‘crown jewel’ case, former prosecutor tried to conceal friendship with witness, state alleges in closing arguments
Former Cook County assistant state’s attorney Nicholas Trutenko called the prosecution that he won in 1989 against Jackie Wilson the “crown jewel of his career," according to prosecutors, but it...
As she is sworn in, State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke decries violence and pledges new detention policy
Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke pledged to get "seismic things done" Monday morning as she took her oath of office in front of a bipartisan crowd, announcing a...