Removal of lockers at Cook County courthouse leaves cellphone users in lurch
Keith Hickman left his Calumet City home at 6 a.m. Monday, taking two buses to make sure he wasn't late for his court date on a burglary charge at the...
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Neighbor rescues woman from sex attack after hearing her screams
A foreign tourist was attacked and sexually abused by a teen who followed her off a CTA bus, but a good Samaritan heard the woman's screams, chased the suspect and...
CTA commuter placed in diversion program for using cellphone jammer
A CTA commuter who briefly became something of a folk hero when he illegally used a cellphone jammer on the Red Line to create his own quiet car was placed...
Man who posed as Chicago cop at 14 pleads guilty to similar charge
A South Side man who embarrassed Chicago police when he posed as a cop as an eighth-grader and was sent out on patrol pleaded guilty Tuesday to his third charge...
Chicago cop facing murder charge seeks to skip court appearances
Lawyers for indicted Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke want a Cook County judge to allow him to skip routine court appearances in his high-profile first-degree murder case, citing concerns...
Suspect in Hadiya’s killing claims gang leader forced him to shoot
In revealing transcripts just made public, one suspect in the killing of honors student Hadiya Pendleton told police that he had cried not long after the shooting because a gang...
Uncle gets 100 years for giving gun to niece in Endia Martin killing
Endia Martin's two sisters cried in a Cook County courtroom Monday as they told a judge they would do anything to bring back their slain 14-year-old sibling, a social butterfly...
Drunken driver convicted of reckless homicide in death of good Samaritan
The mother of a good Samaritan killed trying to stop a drunken driver from leaving a bar in Chicago's West Town neighborhood in 2014 wept Friday as a Cook County...
Lawyer: Man accused of jamming calls on Red Line ‘disturbed by people talking around him’
Aaron Robison was commuting home from work last fall on the Brown Line when an older man carrying a plastic bag of Old Style beer took a seat across from...
Ripped as ‘conniving coward,’ Reginald Potts Jr. given life in prison
After using legal maneuvers to drag out the criminal charges he faced for more than eight years, Reginald Potts Jr. finally met his day of reckoning Tuesday when a Cook...