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Controversy over a Cook County ordinance that forbids the sheriff from notifying federal officials when they're about to release suspected illegal immigrants from jail is heating up after a suspect charged in a fatal hit-and-run posted bail and disappeared.
In a Jan. 9 story about the indictment of a man accused of posting a photo on Facebook of his young daughter with her arms and legs bound and tape over her mouth, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the girl in the photo was also bound to a chair. She was not.
It's a dying art on America's city streets, a bit of sleight-of-hand straight out of Charles Dickens' London.
Jurors who found Rod Blagojevich guilty of federal corruption charges earlier this year did not have to show up to court Wednesday to watch a judge impose the prison sentence they all knew was coming. But they believed they owed him — and themselves — that much.
In an era where there are television networks devoted to home cooking and dietitians warn against the dangers of processed foods, the love of canned cranberry seems to be a bit of dietary discord.
Hester Scott's family members begged the Chicago police officer to have her troubled teenage grandson committed to an institution.
A Chicago alderman says he's found a way for the city to raise desperately needed cash that will also keep more police officers on the street: Marijuana.
He's mayor of a city where Democrats and organized labor are famous for working side by side, but Rahm Emanuel is now turning up the heat on Chicago's unions one by one.
The Lake County Fielders may be through playing for the season, but it looks like there's a bench clearing brawl in the works. With its own home town.
A sheriff whose office exhumed the skeletal remains of eight of serial killer John Wayne Gacy's never-identified victims said Monday that dozens of families of men who disappeared during the 1970s have come forward for DNA testing.
The release of more than 40 suspected illegal immigrants jailed in Cook County on felonies has added fuel to a contentious debate over public safety and local authorities' defiance of a White House program that aims to pursue more criminal deportations.
Chicago Police Officer Nick Spencer finds the best reminder of what his job is about at the end of a leash.
In a Sept. 7 story about a deal between Pabst Brewing Co. and the Chicago Cubs to continue selling Old Style beer at Wrigley Field, The Associated Press misidentified the Pabst co-owner who was quoted about the agreement. The person was Daren Metropoulos, not C. Dean Metropoulos.
Rahm Emanuel campaigned for Chicago mayor on a promise of putting 1,000 more police officers on the city's streets. Now, the man Emanuel picked to be the top cop for the nation's third-largest city says the mayor has told him to slash $190 million from his budget — something people both inside and outside the department say can't be done without layoffs.
The last suspect convicted in the 2009 videotaped beating death of a Chicago honors student was sentenced Monday to 32 years in prison, ending a tragic case that symbolized the brutality of youth violence and sparked outrage around the country.
What if it should happen again?
What if it happens again?
Illinois authorities on Wednesday began examining the remains of a 7-year-old girl who was abducted and killed more than 50 years ago, trying to find clues that would help them put together a criminal case against a 71-year-old former neighbor.
Drew Peterson, a former police officer charged with murdering his third wife and suspected in the disappearance of his fourth, joked that he'd rather see Denzel Washington play him than Rob Lowe when he heard there would be a television movie about him. Now, though, he wants to pull the plug on the project.
This is a dog fight Chicago will relish.
The way Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel sees it, thousands of craps players and slot machine pullers would flock to his cash-strapped city if it gets into the gambling business. It's a safe bet a seedier element will be right behind them.
An Amtrak train bound for southern Illinois has collided with a Metra commuter train arriving at Chicago's Union Station, injuring nine people and severely damaging one Metra car.
Richard M. Daley is no longer mayor of Chicago — just don't look too closely at the hundreds of park benches, sidewalks, bridges and buildings adorned with his name.
Good news for those who thought their copies of Playboy were gone forever when their moms found them and threw them away.
Rahm Emanuel was sworn in Monday as Chicago's first new mayor in more than two decades, a historic power shift for a city where the retiring Richard M. Daley was the only leader a whole generation had ever known.
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