Steve Schmadeke

Tevin Lee seemed to be a West Side teen headed in the right direction, graduating from high school and working this summer at a job designed to help prevent community...

A reputed clergy member whom prosecutors said sexually abused a teenage girl and then gave her a copy of the Kama Sutra appeared in a Cook County courtroom wearing a...

A former gang leader who alleged he was framed by corrupt Chicago Heights police officers for a 1993 murder recalled on Wednesday how years ago he asked his family to...

An assistant coach at Simeon Career Academy High School was ordered held in lieu of $300,000 bail after being accused of sexually assaulting and abusing several teenage girls. Gerald Gaddy,...

A former janitor at a South Side high school was charged with sexually assaulting a student at the school over a year's time as well as molesting another student, Cook...

A North Side business owner slapped a 79-year-old Cook County judge in the face, spit on her and called her "Rosa Parks" after becoming angry that she was smoking near...

Cook County prosecutors said today that nearly 500 people had gathered Sunday afternoon for an unauthorized concert at Montrose Beach that turned into a melee after police officers attempted to...

Paul Humpal was enjoying a beer with his daughter and her husband on the porch of his Wisconsin home on the Fourth of July weekend. His son-in-law, 28, was listening...

The 14-year-old girl charged with the fatal shooting of another teenage girl in a feud over a boy quietly asked a Cook County judge during a hearing Friday if he...