City mourns cop killed fighting a `war’
A day after a Chicago police officer was struck and killed by a commuter train, police Supt. Terry Hillard stood Thursday before a new class of recruits, pointing to Benjamin...
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U.S. orders `high risk’ alert
The federal government raised its national terrorist alert level to Code Orange, or "high risk," for the first time ever Tuesday, warning it had specific intelligence on possible attacks against...
7 charged in vigilante slayings
Four days after two men were dragged from their van and beaten to death after crashing into several women on the South Side, Cook County prosecutors filed first-degree murder charges...
Cops connect 7 to mob killings
Chicago police asked prosecutors Friday to file murder charges against seven people suspected in the fatal mob beating of two men whose van crashed into a group gathered around a...
No charges set for mom whose toddler died in car
Chicago police and Cook County prosecutors said Friday that they are not pursuing charges against the mother of a 2-year-old boy who died of heat stress last month in a...
Murders in Illinois jump by 10%
Mirroring a national rise in reports of crime, Illinois last year saw an increase in murders for the first time since 1994, and violent crime crept up across Chicago's suburbs,...
Cops say Padilla was just a small-time thug
The rewards of Jose Padilla's first crime weren't counted in the dens of international terror. Instead, they came in the form of a stolen wristwatch and $107 in bloody bills...
Suspensions are sought in 911 case
Internal affairs officials have recommended two Chicago police officers and their sergeant be suspended from duty for the officers' apparent failure to respond in a timely manner to Ronyale White's...
Kelly posts bail in Florida
After spending a night in a Florida jail, R&B musician R. Kelly regained his freedom Thursday afternoon, posting the required 10 percent of a $750,000 bond in connection with child...
R. Kelly arrested on 21 porn charges
Grammy Award-winning musician R. Kelly was arrested at his home near Orlando Wednesday following the return of a 21-count indictment in Chicago charging the R&B artist with child pornography stemming...