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Family left with questions after Gresham man, a high school mentor, dies from apparent beating

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

Tall and lanky, Jerry “Watusi” Davis loved basketball and used his passion to mentor high school students. About a week ago, the 57-year-old Davis was found unconscious in the apartment...

Dilip Parekh, manager of the Dunkin' Donuts on the 1500 block of South Michigan Avenue, describes how a man wearing a clown mask robbed the store.

Video shows gunman in clown mask robbing South Loop Dunkin’ Donuts: ‘It was very scary’

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

The worker was alone on the midnight shift, filling a glass cooler in the small Dunkin’ Donuts in the South Loop, when a man in a clown mask appeared out...

Many questions remain following suspicious death of 65-year-old Woodlawn neighborhood woman

May 23, 2019 at 1:24 a.m.

Chicago police were still not saying how or when a 65-year-old South Side woman was killed or where her body was but called her death “heinous” and “unspeakable’’ on Wednesday....

Secret Service officials patrol along the block where former President Barack Obama and his family live and where a suspicious package was intercepted on Oct. 24, 2018, in Washington, D.C.

Emanuel: Chicago authorities on alert after crude pipe bombs mailed to Obama in Washington, others; no credible threats here

August 22, 2019 at 9:39 a.m.

From Mayor Rahm Emanuel to police, Chicago officials on Wednesday said they’re on alert but haven’t found any credible threats to former President Barack Obama’s family home in Kenwood —...

Police: 65-year-old South Side woman missing since May was murdered

May 23, 2019 at 1:24 a.m.

An arrest has been made in Memphis, Tenn., after police said a 65-year-old woman who had been missing from the city’s Woodlawn neighborhood since May was murdered. Daisy Hayes, 65,...

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks to the Chicago Crime Commission at the Union League Club of Chicago on Oct. 19, 2018.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks out against consent decree in Chicago speech: ‘Chicago police are not the problem’

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

In a speech Friday to a friendly law enforcement audience in Chicago, Attorney General Jeff Sessions called a proposed consent decree that would reform the Chicago Police Department an “insult,’’...

FBI and other law enforcement officials work behind a home in the 5200 block of North Virginia Avenue on Wednesday, Oct. 17, in Chicago's Budlong Woods neighborhood.

FBI raids North Side home, makes arrest as part of terrorism-related investigation

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

The FBI raided a North Side home Wednesday in connection with a terrorism-related investigation. The search warrant was executed around 9 a.m. in the 5200 block of North Virginia Avenue...

Tips, reward money surge after 2 slain by Rogers Park shooter, police say

May 23, 2019 at 1:21 a.m.

A reward has increased to $18,000 Saturday for information leading to the capture of the Rogers Park shooter responsible for two slayings within the last week, Chicago police said. Community...

The Leighton Criminal Court Building at 26th Street and California Avenue.

Police: Man charged following threats to public officials amid Van Dyke trial

May 23, 2019 at 1:21 a.m.

A South Side man was charged with threatening public officials inside the Leighton Criminal Court Building and over social media during the trial of Officer Jason Van Dyke, Chicago police...

Chicago police Officer Joseph Walsh, left, with attorney Tom Breen is seen following a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courts Building in Chicago on July 10, 2017.

Cops, detective tried to ‘conceal true facts’ of Laquan McDonald shooting, unsealed prosecution document says

May 23, 2019 at 1:21 a.m.

Police officers charged with conspiring to exaggerate the threat Laquan McDonald posed before he was shot to death by Officer Jason Van Dyke provided “virtually identical false information” about the...

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