Cloaked mob jury to weigh ‘Secrets’
When the much-anticipated Family Secrets mob conspiracy trial opens Tuesday, jurors will share their backgrounds, views on issues and reading habits -- but not their names. In a rare move,...
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Mother may be freed in infant’s 2001 death
A South Side woman who told police that she smothered her 11-month-old daughter in 2001 should be released from prison because the only evidence against her was her own confession,...
Tribune Co. stockholder sues over Zell deal
A Tribune Co. shareholder filed a lawsuit Thursday to block the $8.2 billion deal to take the company private, alleging that Tribune managers wrongly dismissed a competing offer and failed...
Activists seek panel on cop abuse
Police brutality scandals will continue to haunt Chicago until city officials create an independent civilian agency to investigate allegations of abuse, community activists and civil rights lawyers said Thursday. The...
Suspect in arson familiar to cops
A homeless woman accused of setting a fatal fire in Wrigleyville on Saturday has been arrested at least 10 times in the last three years, including once in 2005 for...
Spare the plow? Not even on side streets
With a nod to the snow-crossed tenure of the late Mayor Michael Bilandic, Mayor Richard Daley acknowledged Thursday that weather and politics have historical ties in Chicago. But he denied...
Abortion law called legal
Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan said Friday that a long-dormant state law that prohibits minors from obtaining an abortion without notifying a parent is constitutional and should be enforced. The...
Letter reveals shooter’s anger
Angry, misspelled words and rambling sentences, scrawled by the hand of the man who last week killed three and tore a downtown law firm apart with gunfire, sketch a rough-edged...
Judge warned of Ealy
On the day in 1987 when Cook County prosecutors finally ran out of options in trying to salvage the quadruple murder conviction of James Ealy, the judge who presided over...
Family of man killed by police car sues city
A Chicago police officer was driving the wrong way down a one-way street--without flashing lights or siren--when his car struck and killed a West Side man last month, the man's...