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Police and prosecutors investigate possible overtime abuse tied to hundreds of requests for cops to go to court

April 12, 2022 at 4:24 p.m.

Chicago police and Cook County prosecutors are investigating a possible overtime-abuse scheme involving a detective and an officer who were notified to come to court hundreds of times in the...

Bystanders watch as Chicago police officers investigate a shooting outside the Grand Central police station on July 30, 2020.

Man who pleaded guilty in 2020 shootout with police sentenced to 31 years in prison

April 11, 2022 at 3:53 p.m.

A man who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a dramatic ambush on police near a Northwest Side station was sentenced Monday to 31 years in prison. Lovelle Jordan had...

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, who is seeking reelection this year, is shown in 2019.

FBI has joined investigation targeting possible ghost payrolling in Cook County sheriff’s office, sources say

March 31, 2022 at 8:03 p.m.

Federal authorities are investigating allegations of ghost-payrolling at the Cook County sheriff's office involving at least nine sheriff's employees, including one high-ranking official, sources have told the Tribune. The investigation...

Police work at the scene where a Chicago police officer fatally shot a person March 29, 2021, near the corner of 2400 S. Sawyer Ave., behind Farragut Career Academy High School.

Family and community remember Adam Toledo with a vigil and call for officer who shot the teen to be held accountable

March 30, 2022 at 3:48 p.m.

On this week's first anniversary of the fatal shooting of teenager Adam Toledo by a Chicago police officer during a foot chase, his family went to the church where his...

Eunice Lyles, center, mother of Larry Frazier, with family members in the lobby at Cook County Courthouse in Markham following a hearing regarding Frazier's resentencing on March 23, 2022.

Questions remain as resentencing initiative championed by Kim Foxx is slow out of the gate in Cook County

March 25, 2022 at 5:09 p.m.

Cook County prosecutors' new effort to reduce sentences for some longtime inmates — hailed by State's Attorney Kim Foxx and other reform advocates as a way to right the wrongs...

Eunice Lyles, the mother of Larry Frazier, speaks with family members in the lobby at the courthouse in Markham following a hearing on March 23, 2022, regarding Frazier's possible resentencing.

First case Cook County prosecutors target for resentencing under new initiative probably won’t be done quickly

March 23, 2022 at 3:32 p.m.

The first case Cook County prosecutors presented for possible resentencing under a new initiative could be in for lengthy court proceedings, a judge in the suburban Markham courthouse indicated Wednesday....

R. Kelly turns himself in at 1st District police headquarters in Chicago on Feb. 22, 2019.

Prosecutors in NYC defend R. Kelly racketeering conviction, say evidence was ‘overwhelming’

March 22, 2022 at 11:11 a.m.

Federal prosecutors in New York filed more than 150 pages in legal briefs late Monday defending the Chicago-based singer R. Kelly's conviction last year on racketeering charges, arguing the evidence...

Actor Jussie Smollett speaks to Judge James Linn after his sentence is read on March 10, 2022, at the Leighton Criminal Court Building.

Judge: Defamation suit over ‘whiteface’ comments by Jussie Smollett’s attorney can proceed

March 18, 2022 at 4:53 p.m.

A federal judge in Chicago has ruled that comments made by Jussie Smollett's attorney on national television three years ago that two Black brothers might have attacked the actor while...

Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx on March 15, 2022.

Kim Foxx’s office to begin arguing to cut sentences no longer in ‘the interests of justice’

March 18, 2022 at 3:36 p.m.

Cook County prosecutors will soon begin arguing in court that certain longtime inmates deserve more lenient sentences, State's Attorney Kim Foxx's office said Friday. Three men are slated for possible...

Jussie Smollett’s legal win sees him dodge weeks in Cook County Jail — at least for now

March 18, 2022 at 10:41 a.m.

In a scathing ruling that was to send Jussie Smollett to jail for the first few months of his probation sentence, Cook County Judge James Linn last week told the...

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