Rape charge dropped against former Uber driver
Cook County prosecutors dropped charges Monday against a former Uber X driver accused of sexually assaulting a passenger, telling a judge they were acting after new evidence came to light....
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Ex-Niles cop given probation in theft from dead man
A former suburban police officer was sentenced to two years of probation Monday for stealing more than $1,500 in cash from a man discovered dead in his room at a...
In Endia Martin case, juvenile who took gun pleads guilty to weapons charge
A teenager who was scheduled to go on trial Thursday on charges he hid from police the revolver used to kill a 14-year-old girl moments after the shooting pleaded guilty...
Inmates who allege police abuse by Burge may get hearing on innocence claims
"Girt" Burton was 21 when he alleged Chicago police detectives working under Cmdr. Jon Burge kept him in custody without charges for six days, beating him with a phone book,...
Prosecutors say Safe Passage worker shot girl outside Chicago school
A man identified by prosecutors as a Safe Passage worker was charged with shooting a 17-year-old girl Wednesday while working outside a school on the Far South Side. Shelby Crawford,...
Judge throws out case against UIC student charged with ’50 Shades of Grey’ assault
A student leader at the University of Illinois at Chicago was cleared of a rape charge Thursday by a Cook County judge in a case that had drawn attention because...
Man convicted of killing girlfriend, her sister, mother on South Side
A Cook County judge convicted a man Monday of the 2010 stabbing deaths of his teenage girlfriend, her mother and her 11-year-old sister. Denzel Pittman, 22, shook his head, looked...
2 charged with concealing death of woman found in warehouse
The family of 20-year-old Tiara Groves, whose naked, badly decomposed body was found in an abandoned West Side warehouse in July 2013, cried outside a Cook County courtroom Friday after...
No bail for grandmother charged in killing, sawing of baby
Manuela Rodriguez cried softly Wednesday as a Cook County prosecutor laid out the details of how she allegedly suffocated, beat and used a saw on her 7-month-old granddaughter after the...
Veteran defense lawyer nominated to be Cook County public defender
A veteran insider will be nominated Wednesday to be Cook County's next public defender, making her only the second woman to hold the post in its 85-year history if the...