The ordinance will now acknowledge physical, cultural, and linguistic characteristics as a protected class under its ...

A Cook County judge on Monday ordered a 15-year-old boy held pending trial in the killing of a 16-year-old girl found beaten to death in East Garfield Park earlier this month. The teen boy, whose name ...

A federal judge recently denied a motion to dismiss the wire-fraud-conspiracy charge against a former Macomb County car salesman on allegations he illicitly gave employee discounts to ineligible ...

Cook County must face an assistant public defender’s claim that it violated her free-speech rights by barring her display of a photograph of her standing with a gun in front of the Israeli flag.

Many voters don’t make the time to cast a ballot in their local elections, and that is a sad statement for our democracy.

The family of an 11-year-old Chicago boy murdered last year by his mother’s ex-boyfriend the day after he was released from prison is suing the state — including the embattled Prisoner Review ...

Chicago police and prosecutors said Marcus Bausley allegedly stabbed a mother to death, stabbed her two young sons and ...

Marcus A. Bausley, an ex-partner of Teone Jones, stalked and harassed her continually before killing her, attacking two of ...

The man shot to death by a Chicago Police officer early Thursday during a domestic violence incident in Pullman has been ...

A Chicago woman has been charged with fatally shooting another woman Tuesday night on a CTA platform. Tiara Lee-Roberts, 28, ...