Former City Official's Red Light Cameras Bribery Trial To Start
Jury selection in John Bills' trial gets underway Monday morning in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Chicago U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon will be among the trial prosecutors.
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Jury selection in John Bills' trial gets underway Monday morning in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Chicago U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon will be among the trial prosecutors.
Jason Van Dyke, the white police officer who shot and killed black teen Laquan McDonald in October 2014, has 18 complaints against him and yet no disciplinary action.
Facing near-relentless demands for her resignation over the delay in charging a Chicago cop with murder for the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez now faces the prospect of Democratic Party leaders endorsing one of her challengers in the upcoming primary.
The Chicago Teachers Union has joined a chorus of voices calling for Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez to resign over the Laquan McDonald police shooting scandal.
Two days after saying it would be unnecessary for the U.S. Justice Department to add the city's Law Department to its probe of the Police Department's use of force, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said his administration would order a "third-party" review of the agency.
A group of Chicago aldermen has announced plans to force a showdown over who will act as the official watchdog over the City Council.
West suburban Aurora is poised to make history next week when the City Council votes whether to approve the first female police chief in the city's history.
Lawyer Donna More, who's hoping to unseat Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, has formally kicked off her campaign for that office Wednesday with a broadside at the incumbent, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
A defiant Wheaton College professor facing termination for stating Christians and Muslims worship the same God answered her critics Wednesday, and questioned whether the school is living up to its own Christian mission.
Officials of a Christian college in suburban Chicago on Tuesday said they have begun efforts to fire a professor who was placed on leave after asserting that Christians and Muslims worship the same God.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he still has confidence in the city's law office, even after a judge ruled that a city attorney hid evidence in the case of a fatal police shooting, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel accused Gov. Bruce Rauner of holding public school children hostage Tuesday, a day after the governor threatened to withhold state aid for the Chicago Public Schools unless the mayor helps pass his pro-business anti-union "Turnaround Agenda."
President Barack Obama unveiled an array of measures on Tuesday tightening control and enforcement of firearms in the U.S., using his presidential powers in the absence of legal changes he implored Congress to pass.
Program director Joseph Wright on Monday announced sales figures since Nov. 9, when Illinois launched regulated sales with the opening of the state's first licensed cannabis dispensaries.
It's not the first time Rauner has addressed the Laquan McDonald scandal. Last month, Rauner said he cried when he saw the video of the teen's death, calling it "shocking [and] terrifying," and questioned why it took so long to file murder charges against the officer who shot the teen.
