William Lee is a senior deputy metro editor and writer who has covered crime, politics, neighborhoods and pop culture. He is a graduate of Hyde Park Academy and Western Illinois University.
A young man was killed Friday when he was struck a dozen times by gunfire in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood on the city's South Side, according to Chicago police.
The family of a girl who was fatally struck inside a vehicle by a Mercedes fleeing Chicago police four years ago was awarded nearly $80 million by a Cook County...
A Romeoville man was killed early Saturday morning in a two-vehicle crash on the Stevenson Expressway near west suburban Lyons, according to the Illinois State Police.
A Cook County judge on Wednesday ordered a fast-food worker held in custody days after surveillance video captured him fatally shooting two men inside a Southwest Side restaurant, though prosecutors...
Cook County prosecutors on Friday dropped an involuntary manslaughter charge against a 19-year-old man who briefly appeared before a judge in connection to the shooting death of a 17-year-old girl...
Prosecutors on Saturday said DNA and forensic evidence tied a 20-year-old Auburn Gresham man to a two-year-old triple homicide in the Morgan Park neighborhood that authorities believe began as a...