Steve Schmadeke

A former longtime Chicago police officer accused of having sex with a transgender man while he was locked up at a West Side police station pleaded guilty Thursday to a...

Carrying a shield, an unholstered Taser, a shotgun loaded with beanbag rounds and a drawn handgun, five Park Forest police officers entered the assisted-living apartment where a 95-year-old World War...

Can a suspended Cook County judge return to the bench after being declared legally insane at the time she shoved a sheriff's deputy in 2012? For the first time in...

Shot in the back while washing her dogs outside her father's Englewood home in 2009, 9-year-old Chastity Turner's death became another gut-wrenching symbol of the violence plaguing the South Side...

Chicago police fabricated evidence and conspired with City Hall and county prosecutors to protect then-Mayor Richard Daley's "political dynasty" by covering up the involvement of Daley's nephew in a 2004...

Every weekday, Masharah Tingling says her dad would walk her to her school and be waiting for her when classes finished up. But on Wednesday afternoon, their ritual went terribly...