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Timothy Nelson of Oak Creek, Wis., stands at 77th Street and Western Avenue to show support for law enforcement officers in advance of the funeral for fallen Chicago police Officer Eduardo Marmolejo at St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel in Chicago on Dec. 22, 2018.

Man pleads guilty to carrying gun he test-fired, unwittingly drawing two Chicago police officers to their deaths on Metra tracks

April 7, 2021 at 5:05 p.m.

At an emotional court hearing Wednesday, a South Side man pleaded guilty to carrying a gun he had happened to find in an alley — sparking a chain of events...

Longtime political operative Rudy Acosta Jr. intends to plead guilty to charges of lying to the FBI, court records show

April 7, 2021 at 12:25 p.m.

A longtime political operative and precinct captain for indicted Chicago Ald. Edward Burke appears slated to plead guilty to federal charges of misleading the FBI, court records show. Rudy Acosta...

Former Illinois state Rep. Annazette Collins in 2012.

Former Illinois state Sen. Annazette Collins pleads not guilty to federal tax charges

April 6, 2021 at 11:59 a.m.

Former Illinois state Sen. Annazette Collins pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that she lied on her personal income taxes and failed to file tax returns for her lobbying and...

A "Black Lives Matter" medallion hangs off Gerald Reed's chest as he addresses reporters after being released from Stateville Correctional Center on April 2, 2021.

Gerald Reed, an inmate who alleged abuse by Burge detectives, released from prison after Pritzker commutes life sentence

April 2, 2021 at 7:13 p.m.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday commuted the sentence of Gerald Reed, a longtime inmate whose allegations of abuse at the hands of Chicago police set him on a complicated...

The Rev. Donovan Price, center, leads a prayer circle outside Comer Children's Hospital in Chicago, where 11-year-old shooting victim Ny-Andrea Dyer was being treated on March 5, 2021.

Man ordered held without bail in killing of Ny-Andrea Dyer, 11-year-old girl struck by bullet in gas station shootout

April 2, 2021 at 5:48 p.m.

The man accused of killing an 11-year-old girl in a gas station shootout last month told police he started firing because he was drunk and high, and he thought another...

Biden’s first wave of judicial nominees would put only Black woman on Chicago appeals court

March 30, 2021 at 5:34 p.m.

As an assistant federal defender in Chicago for nearly a decade, Candace Jackson-Akiwumi represented indigent clients where the odds were seemingly insurmountable and justice was often found in negotiation and...

Man charged in February attack on Ald. Brendan Reilly outside River North bar

March 26, 2021 at 7:54 p.m.

A 35-year-old man has been charged in an attack last month on Ald. Brendan Reilly outside a bar in his downtown ward, authorities said. Antonio Palazzi, who was suspected of...

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

R. Kelly waits in federal lockup as path to trials in two states remains muddy

March 25, 2021 at 12:21 p.m.

After more than a year and a half in custody, embattled R&B singer R. Kelly's prospects for trial in two separate federal cases are not quite clear, a judge in...

First Cook County jury to hear a case after court closures for COVID-19 finds man guilty of burglary

March 24, 2021 at 4:14 p.m.

Cook County jurors on Wednesday rendered a verdict for the first time in more than a year, closing out a pandemic-era jury trial that represented a tentative step toward courthouse...

The empty jury box in a courtroom at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in 2018.

After a year of empty courtrooms, Cook County begins first criminal jury trial

March 22, 2021 at 6:06 p.m.

The elaborate machinery of a Cook County jury trial revved back up Monday for the first time in more than a year, with an array of jurors in plastic masks...

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