Why would anyone execute a uniformed police officer sitting in his squad car? That agonizing question about the 2006 fatal shooting of Metra officer Thomas Cook now has an unnerving answer: for his gun. One of two men suspected in Cook’s murder, Jeremy T. Lloyd, was charged Monday in the slaying and ordered held without bail.• Photos: Thomas Cook Shooting
Michael Cardamone's mother and a former worker at the family's Aurora gym created bogus records in an effort to help Cardamone rebut charges he fondled seven young gymnastics students, DuPage County authorities contended Monday.
Chicago Police arrested three people Saturday night after they allegedly were found living with three small children in a filthy, rat-infested West Side apartment that had no heat or food.
A Ford Heights man was charged with first-degree murder Saturday in the fatal shooting of a Chicago Heights man Monday in the south suburb. Sheriff's police are calling the shooting a case of "completely mistaken identity."
Chicago Police were patrolling the West Side as New Year's Eve turned into 2009 when officers say they spotted a 23-year-old woman standing in front of her Austin home, firing a handgun into the midnight air.
Just two hours into the new year, a 47-year-old Chicago man became the first murder victim of 2009.
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Prosecutors revealed shocking molestation allegations against a Chicago firefighter today, claiming he sexually assaulted three young children for about a year in his Little Village basement apartment.
A threatening note left behind in a Chicago bank robbery contained more than just an order: "Give your cash fast or I'll shoot."
Police are on the scene investigating after a man was shot in the leg outside of a downtown nightclub Monday morning.
Six people were critically injured after two cars collided, sending one into a concrete CTA support Saturday night in the West Loop.
Gov. Blagojevich said Friday that if what he has done as governor is an impeachable offense, he's living on the "wrong planet" and is in the "wrong place."
Eliazer Bravo Jr. doesn't hang out with the Latin Kings any more. But the 23-year-old Glendale Heights man said it's not because he owes $3,769.79 after getting slapped with an unusual anti-gang lawsuit by DuPage County prosecutors. Instead, Bravo said, he wants to stay away from the notorious street gang so he can care for his 20-month-old daughter, Aliyana. "You have to want to get out of it -- they can't change you," he said of the anti-gang effort, as he cradled the toddler in his arms.
A North Side movie usher charged with murder for allegedly fatally stabbing a 16-year-old boy outside a CTA station last Friday was ordered held on $3 million bond Wednesday.
As the city saw its 500th homicide of the year this week, the highest toll in five years, a mother was trying to come to grips with the death of her first-born. Michele Delashment said her 21-year-old son, Kermit Delashment II -- one of four children -- had recently earned his associate's degree in computer science at Olive-Harvey College.
Tears streamed down Erika Ramirez' face this morning as a Cook County judge ordered her held on $1million bond.Chicago's 2008 fire death toll: 16 -- may be record low
Sitting in a room with two Chicago Police detectives, James Hampton was matter-of-fact about the killing. "I went up on him shooting," Hampton told them. "After I seen him fall, I kept on shooting." It isn't often that someone outside the criminal justice system can see and hear a killer talk about what he did and why he did it.
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The transcript of Hampton's interrogation
Video: James Hampton's confession
Pulling the trigger: Profiles in violence
It's been eight months since Chicago was wracked by 59 hours of unusual violence last April 18-20. Forty people were shot -- seven fatally -- that weekend in neighborhoods that spanned the city. At least eight people have been arrested in connection with shootings that weekend. These are the stories of two of those suspects.Darnell Robinson: Another statistic Bennie Teague: Anger comes easily Special report: The last days of Angel Ramirez
The judge had just signed a narcotics search warrant for Chicago cops when he spotted the crooks Thursday night. They were rummaging through his wife's car in their North Center neighborhood. So Cook County Judge Nicholas Ford gave chase. A former Cook County prosecutor and now Felony Court judge, Ford hoofed it for about two blocks in the winter night, all the while yelling for help from his St. Benedict's neighbors around Addison and Leavitt who flipped porch lights on and ran out to help.
A Chicago man has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing his girlfriend’s 10-year-old daughter at their Pilsen neighborhood home on the Near South Side.
Sun-Times and NBC5 exclusive: More than 27 years after a mob-related double murder in McHenry County, a little bit of digging by a 42-year old former baby-sitter has led authorities to reopen what was a very cold case. The information supplied by Holly Hager, who is now a mural painter, has led McHenry County sheriff’s detectives to take a fresh look at the long-unsolved killings. The 1981 murders of 37-year old Ron Scharff and 30-year-old Patricia Freemen were the first on record in the then-tiny town of Lakemoor.'Lurch' a ruthless man who lived to kill: Cullotta
The elimination of video bail hearings at the courthouse at 26th and California is expected to create staffing problems for the Cook County sheriff but also could reduce jail crowding, his spokesman said Tuesday. Since 1999, new arrestees have stood in a basement cellblock where a closed-circuit camera transmitted their images to a TV screen in front of a judge in the courtroom.
Police and FBI agents have surrounded a west suburban bank Tuesday morning following an attempted "takeover" robbery.
A bank robbery suspect who was being detained in an FBI van on the Gold Coast Monday morning commandeered the vehicle, threw it into reverse and struck an FBI agent before he was shot, authorities said.
Embattled Gov. Blagojevich huddled with a prominent defense attorney for four hours Saturday, but he still hasn't made a decision on his political future, a source close to the governor said. "He's still contemplating what to do," the source said.
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Martez Wilson should be viewed as a hero rather than a barroom brawler, Ron Zook said Saturday, coming to the defense of his sophomore linebacker, who has been moved out of intensive care and is improving after being stabbed in the back twice.
An officer who recently graduated from the Chicago Police Academy was shot in the shoulder early Friday in the Southwest Side Lawndale neighborhood.
An $85,000-a-year city plumbing inspector plead guilty to one count of bribery Thursday after admitting that he accepted a $500 bribe to overlook shoddy construction work that violated the city’s building code.
It's a stunning portrait of Illinois' chief executive.
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Despite the rise of DNA fingerprinting and other "CSI"-style crime-fighting wizardry, more people in this country are getting away with murder.
Police are investigating a drive-by shooting that left three people, reportedly teens, wounded Sunday night on the Northwest Side.
