Steve Schmadeke

An 18-year-old woman died Friday night when she was thrown out of the back seat of an alleged drug dealer's car after buying prescription medication from him in south suburban...

Two relatives have been charged with repeatedly threatening a 73-year-old priest with violence and warning him that they would make allegations of "improprieties" against him if he didn't give them...

Three class-action lawsuits are challenging how the state revokes parole for thousands of ex-cons each year, a process the plaintiffs' attorneys allege is an unconstitutional sham that can needlessly keep...

Matthew Willens, a Chicago personal-injury attorney, announced this week that he's launching a $1,000 Anything But Law School Graduate Scholarship for one student a year who is planning to go...

A judge denied bail today for an 18-year-old man accused in the fatal shooting of two men killed in 2012 during the NATO summit weekend in which at least a...

The mother of 15-year-old Cornelius "Cornbread" German watched with a small measure of satisfaction Thursday as the man accused of gunning down her son just four blocks from President Barack...

Moments after Marcy Cruz was sentenced Thursday to 22 years in prison for her role in one of Chicago's most notorious muggings, her father told reporters that she was paying...