A former Chicago area police chief faces DUI and resisting arrest charges after bodycam footage captured him berating officers and refusing to cooperate.
A prominent Chicago tax attorney whose wife's dead body was found at the bottom of a stairwell has been arrested on several charges related to past domestic abuse allegations.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson testified before Congress about his city's sanctuary policies, rejecting the claim that the laws protects violent criminals.
Authorities in Portage, Indiana, confirmed that recently discovered remains belong to Shannon Orton, who disappeared in 2020, ending a four-year search that left family and investigators desperate for answers.
Defense attorneys representing two men who allegedly beat a Chicago man to death have said that there is no way of knowing the truth of the incident, including what actions the victim consented to before his death.
A Chicago man was sentenced to 60 years in prison for accidentally gunning down and killing a 25-year-old student who had arrived in the city just hours prior to the fatal shooting.
A former Chicago college student convicted of spying for China was released in a US-China prisoner swap that freed three Americans thought to be wrongfully detained in China.
A Montessori school teacher in Chicago was fired for slapping a child when she "lost her cool," potentially marking the second incident of abuse at the daycare.
On September 16, Nathaniel Huey Jr. allegedly murdered his lover, Zoraida Bartolomei, her husband Alberto Rolon, and their sons, Adriel, 9, and Diego, 7.
