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In a report released Thursday, Chicago health officials starkly stated the cause of a growing life expectancy gap between Black and white residents: decades of segregation and systemic racism.
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Jerry Harris, star of the Netflix docuseries “Cheer,” was arrested Thursday and charged in federal court in Chicago with producing child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
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Jerry Harris, star of Netflix show ‘Cheer,’ was arrested on charges of producing child pornography. Read the charges here.
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Former state Sen. Terry Link on Wednesday pleaded guilty to a federal count of filing a false tax return, marking the latest conviction in a series of wide-ranging investigations against Illinois political leaders.
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The Chicago Police Department’s largest union and city officials apparently remain starkly divided on a new police contract after the city’s first proposal for a deal was provided to the union’s new regime.
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Violence recovery specialist works at a Chicago hospital in a city under siege.
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More than two years after he was convicted of being the getaway driver in Hadiya Pendleton’s murder, Kenneth Williams on Tuesday made an exhaustive — but ultimately unsuccessful — bid to throw out the jury’s verdict.
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The city of Chicago has in some instances failed to release video and other evidence in excessive force cases involving Chicago Police with 60 days, as its own policy requires.
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The fallout over a controversial police shooting that wounded a young man with developmental disabilities has spurred a second whistleblower lawsuit filed by a ranking Chicago police officer alleging he was retaliated against over the handling of the case.
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A former top aide to Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of lying to the FBI about whether he passed secret bid information about a massive $1 billion custodial contract to an operative working for one of the bidders.
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The FBI has refused to turn over records of its investigation into the alleged hoax attack on actor Jussie Smollett to the city of Chicago, arguing that doing so could jeopardize on “ongoing criminal investigation” into the bombshell case, records filed in federal court show.
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A Walgreens employee was stocking shelves Sunday morning when an 18-year-old man grabbed her by the neck, dragged her to the front of the store and stabbed her to death, Cook County prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Sounding the Trump administration’s tough-on-crime theme, Attorney General William Barr claimed Wednesday during a visit to Chicago that the federal Operation Legend program has led directly to a significant drop in shootings in the violence-torn city over the past five weeks.
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Charges have been filed against an 18-year-old Chicago man in the weekend slaying of an employee at a Walgreens in the Wicker Park neighborhood, police announced Tuesday.
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A 15-year-old girl was killed trying to break up a brawl between two feuding branches of a family—a dispute that began on social media and escalated into a chaotic street fight late last month.
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After facing withering criticism for withholding video of the fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald five years ago, the city of Chicago created what it billed as one of the first written policies that guaranteed release of footage of officers using force.
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Police in Urbana have been looking for a man who is allegedly grabbing and slapping women’s buttocks in public areas.
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A former South Bend cop whose fatal shooting of a man last year roiled Buttigieg’s presidential campaign has agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge
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Fidel Marquez, a former vice president for ComEd, was charged Friday with bribery conspiracy alleging he helped orchestrate a scheme to pay political allies of powerful Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan.
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Omar Maani, former SafeSpeed executive, could see bribery conspiracy charges against him dismissed as part of a deal cut with federal prosecutors, attorneys revealed in court Friday.
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A man who was shot by a Cook County sheriff’s deputy after allegedly pulling a gun on officers this week has been charged with aggravated assault and and illegal gun possession, records show.
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R. Kelly asks again to be released from federal custody after inmate says he beat the R&B singer in Chicago jail.
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"To me, it looks like they were watching the training in front of them and doing step by step what the training says to do."
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Authorities are analyzing bones found in Illinois to determine if they are the remains of a woman a jailed serial killer claims he killed about 15 years ago.
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An investigation into the June shooting death of an Illinois man by an eastern Iowa officer during civil unrest in Davenport has found that the death was justified.
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Ald. Ed Burke political corruption trial might be delayed until 2022.
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Former county official and McCook Mayor Jeffrey Tobolski pleads guilty to extortion charges
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U.S. District Judge Andrea Wood said Sultan Issa’s misconduct was “startling” in its breadth and that he would not have been able to carry out the schemes without first gaining the “trust and affection” of his victims.
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Jerry Harris, star of the Netflix docuseries “Cheer,” was arrested Thursday and charged in federal court in Chicago with producing child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
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After spending four years building Chicago out of virtual blocks, an 18-year-old from the north suburbs has unveiled an intricate Minecraft map of downtown.
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The Chicago Cubs are trying to return to the postseason — and erase the bad taste in their mouths from fading down the stretch in 2019.
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Longtime friend wonders if friendship is worth revisiting after fallout.
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Archaeologists in Mexico said Tuesday they have identified a ship that carried Mayan people into virtual slavery in the 1850s, the first time such a ship has been found.
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Chicago's Dr. Ian Smith hosts the new season of "The Doctors" TV show premiering Monday.
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A proposed constitutional change that would shift Illinois to a graduated rate income tax could have the most lasting consequences for the state of any item on the Nov. 3 ballot.
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Who has the best pizza in America? Apparently Chicago has six of them.
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The National Park Service says an Illinois man is believed to have drowned in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park after falling into a natural wonder known as “Midnight Hole.”
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It’s doom and gloom in Illinois — but we do have the power to fix some of our problems.
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Whether you're planning on going out or staying in, Halloween is the best time of year to embrace your creative and festive spirit. Best kids costumes for Halloween 2020. Baby Faux Fur Lil' Elephant Costume: $29.99 at Spirit Halloween.