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Supporters file out of court following a hearing that ordered Ja'Mal Green, 20, held on $350,000 bail on July 11, 2016, at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago. Green, 20, is charged with five felony counts: two of aggravated battery to a police officer, two of aggravated battery in a public place and one of attempting to disarm a police officer, according to a statement from Chicago police.

Shouts of ‘black lives don’t matter’ as high bail set for protester

May 22, 2019 at 10:09 p.m.

A Cook County courtroom erupted with shouts of "black lives don't matter" after a judge set bail at $350,000 for a well-known activist charged with striking one police officer and...

Charges thrown out against 2 convicted in 1995 double murder

May 22, 2019 at 10:09 p.m.

Cook County prosecutors on Monday threw out the convictions of two men for a 1995 double murder at a Southwest Side used-car dealership about seven years after new fingerprint evidence...

Appeals court orders release of Chicago police disciplinary records

May 22, 2019 at 10:08 p.m.

An Illinois appeals court on Friday overturned an injunction that had blocked the release of decades of records of citizen complaints against Chicago police officers, ruling that the documents must...

Jermaine Walker was exonerated in March 2016 after serving 10 years in prison on a drug conviction.

Federal lawsuit alleges wrongful conviction led to decade in prison

May 22, 2019 at 10:08 p.m.

As he languished in prison for years, Jermaine Walker maintained that a security camera in a North Side alley where he was arrested in 2006 on a crack cocaine charge...

Judge: Special prosecutor to probe police accounts of McDonald shooting

May 22, 2019 at 10:06 p.m.

A Cook County judge said Friday a separate special prosecutor will be appointed to investigate Chicago police officers whose account of the Laquan McDonald shooting differed dramatically from a police...

Officer Jason Van Dyke approaches the bench at a hearing Aug. 4, 2016, at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago.

Judge still mulling who to appoint to prosecute cop in Laquan McDonald killing

May 23, 2019 at 7:57 p.m.

A Cook County judge said Thursday he is still deciding who to name as special prosecutor to try Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke on first-degree murder charges in connection...

Man who shot 3-year-old boy was celebrating gang holiday: Prosecutors

May 22, 2019 at 10:04 p.m.

Moments after visiting relatives on Father's Day, the father of 3-year-old Devon Quinn found himself diving in front of the boy to shield him from bullets fired in a drive-by...

Mother of 3 children who drowned is denied custody of new family

May 22, 2019 at 9:59 p.m.

Amanda Ware put her hand to her face and cried Friday after a Cook County judge made her three children wards of the court, ruling that she continued to evade...

A chair draped in purple, Hadiya Pendleton's favorite color, is saved for her among the graduates' chairs at Chicago State University before the graduation ceremony for King College Prep on June 9, 2015. First Lady Michelle Obama gave the commencement address.

Video shows how detectives obtained a confession in the killing of Hadiya Pendleton

May 22, 2019 at 9:59 p.m.

The detective's banging on a metal door roused 18-year-old Micheail Ward from a light sleep. For the past 13 hours, Ward had remained mostly silent in a cramped, windowless Chicago...

A woman cries where a 6-year-old girl was shot in the back in the 2100 block of North Bingham Street in the Palmer Square neighborhood on June 6, 2016.

6-year-old girl shot as result of gang war, prosecutors say

May 22, 2019 at 9:59 p.m.

A 6-year-old girl was drawing with chalk on the front sidewalk outside her aunt's house with her two sisters and three cousins when she was shot by gang members "on...

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