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Testimony delayed when defendant in cop killing opts for jury trial

August 18, 2019 at 6:11 p.m.

The start of testimony at the trial over the 2010 murder of off-duty Chicago police Officer Thomas Wortham IV was abruptly postponed Wednesday when one defendant changed his mind about...

Thomas Wortham III and his wife, Carolyn, announcing a lawsuit against a Mississippi gun dealer in 2013. Their son, Thomas Wortham IV, was killed during a robbery while off duty.

Testimony to begin in 2010 slaying of off-duty Chicago cop

August 18, 2019 at 6:11 p.m.

Thomas Wortham IV, an off-duty Chicago police officer, lay bleeding in the street outside the Chatham neighborhood home he grew up in after a shootout erupted when would-be robbers tried...

Prosecutors free inmate in pivotal Illinois death penalty case

June 17, 2018 at 5:00 a.m.

Rewriting a key chapter in Illinois' death penalty history, Cook County prosecutors Thursday threw out the murder and manslaughter conviction of Alstory Simon, whose videotaped confession unraveled one of the...

Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez announces that her office is dismissing criminal charges against two imprisoned Chicago men following a re-investigation of their cases.

Prosecutors from across U.S. discuss correcting their own mistakes

June 18, 2018 at 7:23 a.m.

A day after judges vacated wrongful murder convictions in Brooklyn and Dallas, top local prosecutors from across the country took part Wednesday in a Chicago conference on what role prosecutors...

Gentrification fails to curb Bronzeville violence

June 17, 2018 at 5:23 a.m.

Kajaunce Morton placed his regular order for a cheeseburger, collected his change and waited for his food inside a South Side takeout restaurant popular with locals and police. Suddenly, two...

Chicago police Cmdr. Glenn Evans leaves the Leighton Criminal Court Building.

Lawyers want cop’s alleged ‘bad acts’ used in court

June 17, 2018 at 5:28 a.m.

Cook County prosecutors on Thursday said they will ask a judge to consider other "crimes and bad acts" allegedly committed by a Chicago police commander who faces indictment on charges...

Man admits hate crime in West Side attack on lesbian couple

June 17, 2018 at 5:53 a.m.

On a mild July night, Quintas Lockett was walking home from a West Side liquor store with her girlfriend when the couple were beaten by an angry mob — a...

Bails set at $2M each for 3 accused of murder

August 18, 2019 at 3:44 p.m.

A judge set bail Friday at $2 million for each of three homeless men facing murder charges after the strangled and beaten body of a man was found in a...

No innocence certificate for alleged torture victim in Burge case

June 17, 2018 at 6:06 a.m.

A Cook County judge on Thursday denied a certificate of innocence to a man who spent more than three decades in prison for a rape he said he confessed to...

Prosecutors: DNA links man to CTA train sex abuse in 2012

May 21, 2019 at 1:53 p.m.

DNA evidence links an Oak Lawn man with a lengthy criminal history to the sexual abuse of a woman who was riding on a CTA Red Line train in 2012,...

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