New details on Tyshawn Lee’s death: Powder burns on 9-year-old’s face
The bullets struck 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee in his thumb and hand and grazed his back. But the fatal shot hit him on the right side of his head. Tyshawn, just...
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Stroger executive gets 100-day sentence for DUI, fatality of bicyclist
A Stroger Hospital executive who was driving home drunk from an office Christmas party in 2013 was sentenced to 100 days in prison Tuesday for striking and killing an aspiring...
Rabbi convicted of sexually assaulting boy nine years ago
When her 15-year-old son began to question the Orthodox Jewish faith he was raised in, his mother turned to a trusted rabbi from their West Rogers Park community for help....
Uptown teen appears in court on charges of dropping baby to her death
With her long hair tied in a braid, a teenage Uptown woman charged with killing her newborn daughter by dropping the infant from her eighth-floor bedroom window tentatively stepped into...
Ex-Chicago State University official, mom charged in ghost payroll scheme
A former Chicago State University vice president who allegedly hired her mother in a ghost payroll scheme and awarded a family friend an unauthorized consulting contract was charged with numerous...
Jury convicts Reginald Potts Jr. in 2007 murder of Nailah Franklin
A Cook County jury convicted Reginald Potts Jr. of first-degree murder Tuesday night in the killing of a 28-year-old pharmaceutical sales representative whose disappearance sparked widespread attention eight years ago....
Off-duty Chicago cop charged with recklessly firing gun at suburban cop
A Cook County judge refused to release a Chicago police officer on his own recognizance Tuesday after he was charged with firing five shots at a suburban cop and his...
Judge rules mother involved in kids’ drownings likely to abuse new family
The drowning deaths of Amanda Ware's three young children more than a decade ago are a blaring warning that her new young family is at risk of abuse, a Cook...
Woman called Reginald Potts ‘pathological’ in email before killing
With a smiling picture of Nailah Franklin displayed on a video monitor behind him, a Cook County prosecutor told a packed courtroom Wednesday that cellphone evidence would prove Franklin was...
Girl accused of killing 14-year-old Endia Martin won’t be tried as adult
For a moment, it was possible to imagine the 15-year-old girl in a floral print dress was in class Tuesday as she swiveled in her chair to view a video...