Janan Hanna

A Cook County judge Tuesday questioned a state law that allowed a South Side woman charged with killing a child to hold a day-care license despite a criminal record for...

In the latest case alleging criminal conduct by officers from the Cook County Sheriff's Department, two correctional officers were indicted Thursday on first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of...

Citing the recent spate of homicides in the South Chicago Police District, a group of South Side pastors Monday called on community residents and police to increase their efforts at...

A teenage girl wanted for the June 2000 murder of a Chicago truck driver was ordered held in lieu of $700,000 bond Wednesday. Margaret DeFrancisco, 17, was arrested near Rockford...

Despite raising questions about the testimony of prosecution witnesses earlier in the trial, Cook County Circuit Judge Ronald Himel on Tuesday refused to dismiss the case against three sheriff's officers...

The trucker whose overturned tractor trailer shut down the Dan Ryan Expressway this week is an illegal immigrant who paid $4,000 for the documents of a dead man, prosecutors said...

More than two weeks after the death of her 11-month-old daughter, Stacey Samuels called 911 from a pay phone. When officers arrived, she told them she "could not keep this...

Chicago police and federal authorities issued arrest warrants Tuesday for a 26-year-old suspected gang member accused in the fatal drive-by shooting last week of a 4-year-old boy. Investigators said they...