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Reputed gang member given 9 years in prison for illegally selling guns to federal informant

May 23, 2019 at 1:29 a.m.

A reputed gang member was sentenced to nine years in prison Thursday for illegally selling 17 firearms, including a sawed-off shotgun and AK-47 rifle, as well as cocaine to an...

Inmates walk near the top of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in April 2012.

Ex-guard at downtown federal jail pleads guilty to smuggling drugs, cellphone for bribes

May 23, 2019 at 1:29 a.m.

A former guard at the federal jail in downtown Chicago pleaded guilty Thursday to pocketing bribes in return for smuggling synthetic marijuana, at least one cellphone and cigarettes to an...

Good Samaritan, 39, stabbed by homeless man he was trying to help, police say

May 23, 2019 at 1:28 a.m.

A 32-year-old homeless man allegedly stabbed a man and tried to steal his van during an incident that ended in a crash and police chase in the River North neighborhood...

Hate crime charges filed against man accused of drawing swastika graffiti on North Side

May 23, 2019 at 1:28 a.m.

Felony hate crime charges have been filed against a man accused of scrawling swastika graffiti in his Buena Park neighborhood on the North Side, according to Chicago police. Heath A....

People gather Oct. 2, 2018, to remember Eliyahu Moscowitz and Douglass Watts after they were both shot and killed in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood.

Rogers Park shootings: $150,000 reward may be largest ever offered in Chicago to find a suspect

May 23, 2019 at 1:28 a.m.

More than five weeks after a gunman shot and killed two people in Rogers Park, apparently at random, the reward for information to help solve the case has been raised...

Former Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago in 2010.

Testimony of inmate who claims Burge detectives dangled him out window used on behalf of another man seeking new trial

December 11, 2018 at 7:47 p.m.

Dizzy from blows to the head, James Marshall dangled from a third-floor window of a Chicago police station. Detectives held onto his ankles. “I’m halfway out the window,’’ Marshall testified...

Metra workers stand by the side of the railroad tracks, just north of Byron Street, after an explosion that killed one and injured another of their colleagues on Nov. 3, 2018.

‘It was just a huge boom. The house shook’: Metra worker dies, another badly hurt during Northwest Side explosion

May 23, 2019 at 1:27 a.m.

One of two workers injured during an explosion on Metra train tracks late Saturday morning on the Northwest Side has died, officials said. The man was pronounced dead at 12:11...

An American Airlines jet prepares to land at O'Hare on July 15, 2016.

‘Stupid mistake’: Baggage handler fell asleep on Chicago-bound plane after night of drinking, smoking pot

May 23, 2019 at 1:26 a.m.

The jetliner was in the air, bound for O'Hare International Airport, when the baggage handler woke up in the cargo hold. It was dark, so he lit a Bic lighter....

Former Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago on June 29, 2010. Lawsuits from victims of Burge, who died in September 2018, have cost taxpayers many millions of dollars in settlements and judgments.

Accuser of police torture by Burge crew seeks new trial: ‘I was crying out for help. No one wanted to be there.’

May 23, 2019 at 1:26 a.m.

A man serving life in prison but hoping for a new trial after alleging he was beaten by a member of disgraced former Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge’s infamous “midnight...

Porch collapse in Logan Square sends 5 to hospitals

May 23, 2019 at 1:25 a.m.

Three men and two women in their 20s were hurt when a porch collapsed in the Logan Square community overnight. They were on a second floor back porch when it...

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