Drunken driver gets 16 years in prison for killing good Samaritan
Christine Stokowski's hands shook as she tearfully told a Cook County judge Wednesday how she fell to her knees on the side of Interstate 55 two years ago and cried...
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Video releases include police fatal shooting, off-duty Chicago cop’s punches at Portillo’s
Among videos released Friday by the city was an April 2012 police shooting that left one man dead and two wounded after officers responded to a burglary call at a...
Judge agrees to appoint special prosecutor in Laquan McDonald killing
A Cook County judge agreed on Thursday to appoint a special prosecutor to try Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke for the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, a case that...
Woman given reduced sentence for kicking courthouse deputy in shin
A West Side grandmother whose decades-old felony convictions left her facing a mandatory minimum six-year prison sentence for kicking a courthouse deputy in the shin pleaded guilty Thursday to a...
May 20, 2016: Prosecutors lay out gruesome details in killing of Gage Park family
Cook County prosecutors on Friday laid out in gruesome detail how a relative killed six members of a Gage Park family, saying he fatally stabbed his 13-year-old cousin as the...
Brawl erupts outside court after emotional hearing in girl’s fatal stabbing
De'Kayla Dansberry was walking to a South Side store with some friends on a cool Saturday evening when they got into an argument with another group of girls sitting out...
Chicago cop charged with recorded beating of patient in handcuffs
A veteran Chicago police officer sought retribution on a patient at a South Side hospital a short time after he was surprised and punched in the face by the man,...
Lawyer with comic ambitions as ‘Excuseman’ charged with thefts from clients
When clients came to his Loop offices, personal injury lawyer Jordan Margolis sometimes liked to point out the self-published book he kept on his coffee table featuring "Excuseman," a comic...
Judge hands down 25-year prison sentence for shooting of Chicago cop
A Chicago man was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for shooting Chicago police Officer Del Pearson, who was severely injured when he was struck by a bullet that...
Set for trial, man instead pleads guilty in Chicago cop shooting in 2012
In a surprise move just before his trial was set to begin in Cook County criminal court, a man charged with shooting a veteran Chicago cop in 2012 pleaded guilty...