Megan Crepeau

A resident of Cabrini-Green works in her vegetable garden on July 9, 1974, in Chicago.

A child’s killing at Cabrini-Green sparks memories of a neighborhood’s troubled past, and hopes for a lasting peace

July 27, 2025 at 10:47 a.m.

At the corner of Chicago and Hudson avenues, a stone's throw from Cabrini-Green's rowhouses, kale and tomatoes grow in rows of soil mounded on top of asphalt. "It's on top...

Jalisa Ford sits on the ground on Aug. 1, 2020, while rubbing the walkway where her 9-year-old son, Janari Andre Ricks, was fatally shot while playing with friends at the Cabrini Green rowhouses the previous evening.

‘The face of Cabrini-Green’: A lost child, a legacy of failure and a changing neighborhood

December 20, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

On a cold Saturday at the end of October, the corner of Division Street and Cleveland Avenue was consecrated. A small crowd bowed their heads and prayed along with a...

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.

Judge declares Jackie Wilson innocent in Jon Burge-related cop killings and refers case for investigation by special prosecutor

December 19, 2020 at 12:42 p.m.

A man who served more than three decades behind bars for a 1982 cop killing was officially declared innocent Friday after years of alleging he was tortured and framed for...

Former Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts, right, leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in 2013 after being sentenced to prison.

Prosecutors drop 6 more cases with links to disgraced former Chicago police sergeant

December 15, 2020 at 1:30 p.m.

Cook County prosecutors on Tuesday agreed to drop six more convictions connected to disgraced ex-police Sgt. Ronald Watts, bringing to more than 100 the total number of thrown out Watts-related...

Judge orders Cook County state’s attorney’s office to pay family’s legal fees in suit over handling of cab driver’s slaying

November 30, 2020 at 7:14 p.m.

The Cook County state's attorney's office has been ordered to pay about $16,000 to the family of a cabdriver who was killed in 2018, money to go toward the family's...

Nicole Loye is the sister of Wayne Antusas.

Cook County murder defendant who fled to Ohio one of more than 50 murder defendants here out on bond and on electronic monitoring

November 9, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

On Oct. 30, friends and family of Reinaldo "Reii" Sanchez gathered on what would have been his 29th birthday, a step toward healing after he was fatally stabbed last year...

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A child’s killing at Cabrini-Green sparks memories of a neighborhood’s troubled past, and hopes for a lasting peace

‘The face of Cabrini-Green’: A lost child, a legacy of failure and a changing neighborhood

Judge declares Jackie Wilson innocent in Jon Burge-related cop killings and refers case for investigation by special prosecutor

Prosecutors drop 6 more cases with links to disgraced former Chicago police sergeant

Judge orders Cook County state’s attorney’s office to pay family’s legal fees in suit over handling of cab driver’s slaying

Prosecutors agree to drop murder cases against pair, but judges aren’t on board

With COVID-19 surging anew, alarms sound again for Cook County’s incarcerated

Leading Cook County judge named to appellate seat by Illinois Supreme Court

State’s attorney’s office reviewing coronavirus policy for staff, urging them to work from home

Cook County murder defendant who fled to Ohio one of more than 50 murder defendants here out on bond and on electronic monitoring