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Christina Mejia discusses the 2009 death of her daughter, Jessica, on April 16, 2015. Jessica was killed in a crash involving a drunken driver.

Trial over naked crime scene photos begins

August 18, 2019 at 3:38 p.m.

The death of Jessica Mejia, 20, in an early morning car crash on Dec. 31, 2009 caused her family "horrible pain and loss — but that wasn't the only horrible...

Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez speaks at a news conference Monday, April 20, 2015, in Chicago announcing her office will no longer prosecute most misdemeanor marijuana possession cases, saying what prosecutors are doing now "is simply not working." She says the count is spending too much money and time cycling offenders in and out of the system and offenders charged with a low-level marijuana felony will be routed to an alternative prosecution program. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Cook County minor drug offenders to get treatment, not jail

May 25, 2019 at 12:57 p.m.

The Cook County state's attorney's office will no longer prosecute most misdemeanor marijuana possession cases and will defer more low-level drug offenders to treatment programs, State's Attorney Anita Alvarez announced...

Former South Holland nursing home resident’s death ruled ‘natural’

May 21, 2019 at 5:16 p.m.

Heart problems due to natural causes led to the death earlier this year of a 98-year-old former resident of a South Holland assisted living facility, a Cook County medical examiner's...

Keith Nicks, right, leaves the Bridgeview Courthouse in February. Nicks was sentenced to six years in prison for his involvement in the Burr Oak Cemetery scheme.

Ex-Burr Oak Cemetery workers get prison time

May 8, 2019 at 4:06 p.m.

Terrence Nicks kept a solemn face when he asked Judge Joan O'Brien to consider his personal history, shortly before she sentenced him at the Bridgeview Courthouse on Friday to three...

Chicago High School for Agricultural Science have collected non-perishable food items and will be donating more than more than 130 backpacks filled with these items to Chicago's homeless at Pacific Garden Mission 1458 S. Canal Street. Tuesday, April 14, 2015 (Brian Jackson/For The Southtown)

Agricultural high school students bring food, hygienic items to the homeless

May 21, 2019 at 5:14 p.m.

Cameron McCoy said delivering food and hygienic items to the homeless with about 30 of his classmates at the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences only reinforced his thankfulness for...

Members of the public watch a burial service Thursday, April 16, 2015, for the remains of unclaimed miscarried or stillborn fetuses at Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery in Chicago. Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of Chicago provided the burials at no

Remains of 63 unclaimed fetuses buried at Catholic cemetery

May 21, 2019 at 5:15 p.m.

Grey skies and muddy grounds didn't keep Yolanda Gamboa from quietly praying at a service for 63 of Cook County's unclaimed miscarried or stillborn fetuses at Chicago's Mount Olivet Catholic...

Ford Heights fire trainee indicted on arson charges

May 8, 2019 at 4:06 p.m.

A Ford Heights trainee firefighter and college student was indicted in a Cook County court Tuesday on three counts of arson for allegedly setting fire to three vacant houses in...

U.S. Rep. Bill Foster (D-11th), who is a physicist, spoke at technology hub 1871 in Chicago on Thursday, April 9, 2015, in support of a new $200 million supercomputer coming in 2018 to Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont.

Money for supercomputer coming to Argonne

May 21, 2019 at 5:12 p.m.

The U.S. Department of Energy is investing $200 million to bring to Argonne National Laboratory by 2018 a new supercomputer that is "18 times more powerful" than its current one,...

Country Club Hills Ald. James Ford talks with supporters at his campaign headquarters Tuesday evening.

Ford new mayor of Country Club Hills

May 21, 2019 at 5:11 p.m.

Voters in Country Club Hills on Tuesday elected Ald. James Ford as mayor, replacing the colorful and controversial Dwight Welch, who supported Ford as his successor. With all 12 precincts...

Marine toxicologist Riki Ott speaks at City Hall in Chicago about the hazards of tar sands oil, which she thinks likely exists in Lake Michigan as a result of the BP Whiting spill last year. Debra Michaud and Pat Walker (right) look on.

Environmentalists ask Chicago mayor to investigate BP oil spill

May 21, 2019 at 5:07 p.m.

Environmental activists delivered a letter to Mayor Rahm Emanuel Wednesday demanding a public report and investigation into at least 1,600 gallons of heavy crude oil spilled into Lake Michigan last...

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