Teen pleads guilty to attack on Emanuel’s son, gets probation
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's wife nodded back as the teen charged with beating her son and stealing a cellphone from him apologized to her in Cook County juvenile court Monday before...
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Woman says ex-boyfriend disguised himself before sexually assaulting her
A Chicago woman identified by prosecutors as an escort testified Thursday that she was raped by a former boyfriend after he used a fake identity to evade her online screening...
The horror of a triple slaying plays out in criminal court
On a South Side street of family homes, the Cochrans — a mother and her two young daughters — moved into a second-floor apartment in August 2010. It was a...
Judge increases bail for man accused of disarming Chicago cop outside Walgreens
A Cook County judge on Tuesday quadrupled the bail amount for a man charged with disarming a police officer outside a Walgreens store and trying to shoot the cop and...
Prosecutors: UIC student charged with assault said he was re-enacting ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
A University of Illinois at Chicago student leader has been charged with sexually assaulting a 19-year-old female student in what Cook County prosecutors say was a re-enactment of scenes from...
Jury convicts gang member in 2011 murder of pregnant teen
Eight months pregnant, Charinez Jefferson's stroll with a friend to a corner store in the Marquette Park neighborhood ended when a gang member shot her eight times at point-blank range...
Officer defends high-speed chase that ended in woman’s death
A Chicago police officer involved in a fatal high-speed pursuit of an armed robbery suspect in 2013 testified Thursday that he saw Jacqueline Reynolds' car only a second or two...
Murder trial hears about role of police and suspect in fatal crash
The blame for a 2013 collision between a Chicago police vehicle and a woman driving to a funeral lies with police and not the man who led officers on a...
Testimony to begin in trial over high-speed police chase that killed woman
The two were inseparable friends for nearly 45 years — until Jacqueline Reynolds was killed as she drove to a funeral and her car was smashed into by a Chicago...
Cook County corrections officer charged with sexual misconduct
A female Cook County Jail guard has resigned after being charged with having a sexual relationship with a male inmate. Lotisha Myers, 47, was arrested Wednesday evening after a weeklong...