Charges reinstated against Park Ridge cop accused of off-duty beatings
In the eight years since allegations he beat two teenagers for shattering a window on his personal car, Jason Leavitt has gone from a lieutenant to a commander for Park...
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High-level cartel figure sentenced to 22 years in prison in Chicago
The highest-ranking Sinaloa cartel member ever sentenced in the U.S. was given 22 years in prison Monday by a federal judge in Chicago. "I tell you — and I tell...
Prosecutors: Suspect in Hadiya killing admitted shooting minutes later
Shortly after 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton was shot dead while taking shelter with schoolmates from rain in a South Side park, her two killers stopped to pick up two friends who...
Cop who fired beanbag rounds in vet’s death: ‘Did my job by the book’
The morning after he was charged for his role in the death of a knife-wielding man in his 90s, Park Forest police Officer Craig Taylor sat handcuffed to a bench...
Ex-Cook jail guard avoids prison time for mentally ill inmate’s beating
A former Cook County Jail guard who ordered and then took part in the beating of a mentally ill inmate apologized Tuesday before she was sentenced to two years of...
Motorist given 10-year sentence for Cook County Jail guard’s death in 2012
A Little Village man was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty Friday to striking and killing a correctional officer outside Cook County Jail while driving on a...
Juries quickly convict 2 men of 2010 killing of Chicago cop
Separate Cook County juries took little time Thursday to convict two men charged with murder in the 2010 shooting of off-duty Chicago police Officer Thomas Wortham IV outside his parents'...
Former Skokie cop pleads guilty to injuring woman
A former Skokie police officer who was caught on video shoving a woman into a concrete bench while booking her at the station pleaded guilty Wednesday to official misconduct and...
Cicero crime: Conviction in 1993 double murder is overturned on appeal
After helplessly waiting nearly two decades for justice in the murders of her mother and 8-year-old daughter, Lucy Rhynes seemed incredulous moments before a jury convicted an ex-lover of the...
Dad testifies to shooting robbers who had just wounded his son, a cop
Thomas Wortham III's son, an off-duty Chicago cop, had just been shot outside the family's South Side home by one of two would-be robbers when the father picked up his...