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Prosecutors: Man assaulted, beat up girlfriend after her birthday party

May 21, 2019 at 12:48 p.m.

A man charged with sexually assaulting and beating his girlfriend after her birthday party in June was ordered held in lieu of $300,000 bail today. Alvin Johnson, 23, of the...

Man accused of sexually assaulting young relative

May 21, 2019 at 12:48 p.m.

A man was ordered held Saturday on $250,000 bail after he was accused of sexually assaulting an underage female relative and threatened to kill her if she told anyone. Pollock...

Police walk to the building where the shooting occurred.

Loop shooting: How did trusted partner become disgruntled gunman?

May 21, 2019 at 12:46 p.m.

Steven LaVoie had a vision for transforming freight traffic across the country and called it ArrowStream. Within months of forming the company, he hired technology expert Tony DeFrances to help...

Police: Gunman and victim in Loop shooting ‘had been friends for years’

May 21, 2019 at 12:45 p.m.

Less than a week after Tony DeFrances learned that he was being demoted as part of a downsizing of his company, authorities said he walked into his boss's office Thursday...

Illinois Governor Patrick J. Quinn hands out pens used in a signing ceremony at the State of Illinois Building in Chicago on Wednesday, July 30, 2014. The legislation expands who at Illinois schools would be allowed to administer epinephrine, from just nurses to any trained school employee or volunteer.

New law lets more school workers use emergency injection on students

May 21, 2019 at 12:44 p.m.

Trained school employees and volunteers will be allowed to administer an emergency epinephrine injection if they believe a student or visitor is having an allergic reaction under a bill signed...

Eight of Robert "Bobby" Franks' friends from the Harvard private school he attended acted as pallbearers at the 14-year-old's funeral on May 25, 1924. Franks, the youngest son of millionaire Jacob Franks, was killed by Richard Loeb, 18, and Nathan Leopold Jr., 19, on May 21, 1924. The funeral service was held at the Franks home at 5052 Ellis Ave. and then Bobby's casket, guarded by six motorcycle police, was taken to Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago. At the time of the funeral, the killers were still at large.

Northwestern files suit against author for copyright infringement

June 18, 2018 at 8:56 a.m.

Northwestern University has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against a woman whom the university hired to write a book about Chicago's notorious 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder trial. According to...

Duran Duran sues Glenview company over fan club operations

June 17, 2018 at 12:31 p.m.

Duran Duran, the English rock band known for 1980s hits like "Hungry Like the Wolf" and "Girls on Film," is suing an Illinois company that manages its fan club for...

Lincoln Park murder: ‘Everybody is just stunned’

May 21, 2019 at 12:30 p.m.

Family and friends of Jacob Klepacz, who authorities say was killed in a Lincoln Park robbery this spring, became emotional after the West Side man charged with his murder was...

Prosecutors: Outfit street crew posed as cops to rob drug stash houses

May 21, 2019 at 12:30 p.m.

Members of a street crew with ties to Chicago's Outfit that operated a sophisticated drug ring that posed as police officers to rob cartel stash houses of large amounts of...

Police: Orange Line robbers had been riding trains all day

May 21, 2019 at 12:26 p.m.

The two men suspected in this week's Orange Line train-car robbery spent hours riding the rails before announcing their crime to passengers in a single car during one of the...

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