6 months after Illinois ended cash bail, jail populations are down as courts settle into new patterns
With half a year past, experts are taking stock of the law that eliminated cash bail in Illinois.
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Jury finds tenant guilty of dismembering beloved Rogers Park landlord
After more than seven hours of deliberations, a jury on Monday found a woman guilty of murdering and dismembering her Rogers Park landlord in a grisly 2022 homicide. The verdict...
‘Every single day’: Judge tells woman to remember destroying family of pregnant teen she killed, removing baby from womb, as she hands down 50-year prison sentence
With the five year anniversary of the slaying of 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez looming, the woman accused of killing the teen and cutting her baby out of the womb in a...
Wheeling police investigate deaths after couple found dead Thursday after wellbeing check
Wheeling police are investigating the deaths of a couple who were discovered dead at a home after a call of a wellbeing check Thursday evening. Shortly before 5:45 p.m., officers...
Chicago police officer charged with sexual misconduct while on duty
A Chicago Police officer has been charged with sexual misconduct while on duty after prosecutors say he inappropriately touched a woman in custody last year.
Eileen O’Neill Burke: How she won and what it might mean for the office of Cook County’s top prosecutor going forward
Should Eileen O’Neill Burke ultimately win, she would quickly face formulating her own reform agenda, making cases to tamp down Chicago’s persistent gun violence and running an office struggling with...
A woman who says she shot and killed abuser seeks early release after unfavorable Illinois Supreme Court decision
Woman seeking resentencing under an Illinois law that allows domestic violence survivors to make a case to a judge for a lower sentence.
Illinois Supreme Court to hear Jussie Smollett appeal
The Illinois Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from Jussie Smollett, the former "Empire" actor whose convictions for staging a hate crime caused fevered international media attention.
Two men convicted in killing of Amari Brown, 7, in 2015
Two men were convicted late Thursday in the killing of Amari Brown nearly nine years after the boy’s slaying, which spurred national news attention and calls for change.
Illinois Supreme Court makes changes amid ‘staggering’ increase in pretrial appeals over detention
The Illinois Supreme Court has changed rules for appealing pretrial detention decisions after appellate courts have seen an unprecedented influx of cases.