AP: Jussie Smollett sentenced to 150 days in jail in fake attack
By Don Babwin and Kathleen Foody | Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — A judge sentenced Jussie Smollett to 150 days in jail, branding the Black and gay ...
Boy, 11, charged in armed carjacking in Chicago neighborhood
By The Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — An 11-year-old boy has been charged in an armed carjacking last fall where he and other males allegedly stol ...
4th Chicago cop in weeks arrested on excessive force charges
By Don Babwin | Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police lieutenant on Thursday became the fourth member of the department to appear in court ...
Ex-boyfriend accused of killing pregnant Chicago woman, baby
By Don Babwin, The Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — A man charged in the slaying of his pregnant ex-girlfriend and the baby who died four days later a ...
Mother charged in fatal stabbing of 5-year-old Chicago girl
By The Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — A mother has been charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of her 5-year-old daughter on Chicago’s West Side ...
Chicago police charge suspect in slaying of 10-year-old girl
Photo: Chicago Police Department
By The Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — The suspected driver of a car from which a 10-year-old girl was shot and kil ...
Police: Suspect shoots 3 Chicago officers who then shoot him
By The Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — A carjacking suspect being led into a Chicago police station on Thursday shot three officers, who returned fir ...
Chicago gang members sentenced to a combined 155 years in prison for execution-style killing of 9-year-old boy
By Safia Samee Ali, NBC News
CHICAGO - Two gang members who were convicted in the 2015 execution-style revenge killing of a 9-year-old boy were sente ...
Off-duty police officer crashes into restaurant, kills woman while allegedly driving drunk
By Mark Osborne, ABC News
An off-duty police officer lost control of his vehicle while allegedly driving drunk and plowed into a restaurant in Chic ...
R. Kelly loses civil court case after missing hearing
From BBC News
Singer R. Kelly has lost a civil court case by default after failing to respond to a legal case brought by a woman who accused him of s ...
R. Kelly Charged in Chicago With 10 Counts of Criminal Sexual Abuse
ATLANTA, GA - DECEMBER 27: R. Kelly Performs during the Holiday Jam at Fox Theater on December 27, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Prince Williams ...
Man accused in death of girl, 4, who spilled juice on Xbox
By The Associated Press
Prosecutors will seek a life sentence for a suburban Chicago man accused of beating a 4-year-old girl to death after she sp ...
Cicero Man Disputes DUI Arrest; Claims He’s “More Sober” Than His Passenger
From CBS Local, Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS)–A Cicero man arrested for DUI early Sunday morning in suburban Riverside allegedly insisted to police that he ...
US teen in ‘Slender Man’ case who stabbed classmate 19 times pleads guilty
From The Straits Times (View article)
CHICAGO (AFP) - One of two girls accused with stabbing a friend inspired by a fictitious internet character p ...
Slain 8-Year-Old Alleged Horrific Abuse in Her Diary Before She Was Found Dead: ‘I Hate This Life’
Pictured above: Gizelle Ford
By Steve Helling | People
Like many girls her age, 8-year-old Gizzell Ford kept a diary. The cover was striped with r ...
2 Girls Critical After Being Shot in Head in Separate Incidents in Chicago
Two young girls are in critical condition, fighting for their lives, after being shot in the head in two separate incidents in Chicago this weekend, p ...
4 in custody after mentally disabled man tied up, tortured on Facebook Live
By Lisa Chavarria | FOX 32 NEWS
FOX 32 NEWS - Chicago investigators are questioning four African-Americans after a Facebook Live video shows a grou ...
Report: Man confesses to murder for which twin has long been imprisoned
CBS/AP
CHICAGO -- The identical twin brother of an Illinois man who has been in prison for over a decade has confessed to committing his brother’s ...
House party shooting closes violent weekend in Chicago: 7 dead, 52 wounded
By Chicago Tribune Staff | Chicago Tribune
It was raining hard and Donre Domio at first thought the loud bangs were thunder.
Then blue and red lig ...
Mom helped 13-year-old stab honor student to death, prosecutors say
CHICAGO -- A 13-year-old girl and her mother have been charged in the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old honor student over the weekend.
15-year-old D ...