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Chicago homicide Detective Kriston Kato outside the Cook County Criminal Court Building at 26th Street and California Avenue, Jan. 6, 1993.

Illinois lawmakers created a commission to investigate police torture more than a decade ago. Now, special prosecutors acting on behalf of Cook County are challenging it.

March 21, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

A Cook County judge last year moved cases involving allegations of torture by a former Chicago police detective to Will County, because the detective was married to another sitting Cook...

The Illinois Supreme Court in Springfield, on Nov. 9, 2022.

Arguments over controversial no-bail law aired before Illinois Supreme Court

March 14, 2023 at 5:55 p.m.

Kankakee County State's Attorney James Rowe on Tuesday was making his argument for why a law eliminating cash bail violates the state constitution when Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary...

El ataúd del oficial de policía de Chicago asesinado, Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso, sale de la misa fúnebre en St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel, el jueves 9 de marzo de 2023. Vásquez Lasso, de 32 años, fue asesinado a tiros cuando respondía a los informes de un hombre persiguiendo a una mujer con un arma en Gage Park.

‘En momentos como estos, estamos desesperados’: Dolientes se reúnen en funeral del policía de Chicago asesinado, Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso

March 9, 2023 at 4:52 p.m.

Para quienes lo conocían bien, el oficial de policía de Chicago, Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso, era un amigo leal y confiable, aunque a veces al conocerlo parecía serio. Para su...

Chicago police Superintendent David Brown and Mayor Lori Lightfoot present Milena Estepa de Vásquez with the Chicago flag from the coffin of her husband, slain Chicago police Officer Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso, after his funeral Mass at St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel on March 9, 2023. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

‘At times like these, we are in despair’: Mourners gather for funeral of slain CPD Officer Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso

March 9, 2023 at 4:14 p.m.

To the people who knew him best, Chicago police Officer Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso was a loyal friend and confidant, even if he sometimes seemed serious upon first meeting. To...

In a photo that was retouched for publication in the baiduhai on Feb. 15, 1982, Jackie Wilson is taken into the Burnside Area police station in Chicago on Feb. 14, 1982, by a plainclothes officer after he was arrested in the shooting deaths of two officers.

Two former Cook County prosecutors hit with charges in Burge-connected Jackie Wilson case

March 8, 2023 at 5:23 p.m.

Two former Cook County prosecutors have been indicted by a grand jury on charges of perjury and official misconduct in connection with a complicated, decades-old case of a man who...

The casket of Chicago police officer Clifton Lewis is carried from the church on Jan. 5, 2012.

Former police Superintendent Garry McCarthy testifies in hearing on killing of Officer Clifton Lewis

March 8, 2023 at 5:02 p.m.

In January 2012, then-Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy emailed the police force about charges in the killing of Officer Clifton Lewis, but he also sought to debunk a rumor, he...

Police work the scene where an officer was shot near the 5200 block of South Spaulding Avenue on March 1, 2023, in Chicago.

Accused shooter of slain Chicago police Officer Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso ordered held without bond

March 3, 2023 at 6:21 p.m.

Late in the afternoon Wednesday, Steven Montano, 18, threatened to get his gun while arguing with his girlfriend, then grabbed her phone to stop her from calling 911, prosecutors alleged...

Suspect charged as city mourns CPD officer shot and killed responding to domestic violence call: ‘We must work together to find solutions’

March 3, 2023 at 11:22 a.m.

On Thursday morning, about 100 people walked the two blocks from St. Gall Catholic Church in Gage Park, paying their respects at the block where Chicago police Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso...

Actor Jussie Smollett appears at his sentencing hearing Thursday, March 10, 2022, at the Leighton Criminal Court Building.

Year after sentencing, actor Jussie Smollett appeals, claiming his double-jeopardy rights were violated, trial judge biased

March 2, 2023 at 1:20 p.m.

Nearly a year after being sentenced to five months in jail, only to be released on bond days later, actor Jussie Smollett has filed his long-awaited appeal claiming his indictment...

The office of the attorney general in the Thompson Center in Chicago is seen in July 2021.

Illinois AG pushes back on bail reform challenge from prosecutors in final SAFE-T Act appeal brief before arguments

February 27, 2023 at 1:41 p.m.

The Illinois Supreme Court should reject a "grab-bag of constitutional theories" put forward by prosecutors across the state who are challenging a measure that would eliminate cash bail, the attorney...

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