Ex-Commander Enters Plea In Social Security Fraud Case
Federal prosecutors allege Kenneth Johnson bilked the Social Security Administration out of $363,064 from about June 1994 to November 2017.
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Federal prosecutors allege Kenneth Johnson bilked the Social Security Administration out of $363,064 from about June 1994 to November 2017.
In August, the bodies of the two Fenger High School students were found shot execution style in a grassy field.
Three West Side stabbing deaths that have occurred in November have the community on high alert this weekend.
Joseph Kopacz, 54, was on trial for an October 2016 home invasion and criminal sexual assault when he went on the run Nov. 8.
Four Missouri police officers have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the assault of a fellow officer who was working undercover.
Police said a girl was walking home from school when a man in his 30s or 40s whistled and motioned for her to come to him.
Robert Williams, 42, was standing on the sidewalk near Howard and Ashland around 11:15 p.m. Thursday, when he was shot in the back, according to police and the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
Police are looking for two robbers targeting passengers on the CTA Blue Line, and hope surveillance images help them make arrests.
A woman was knocked to the ground and robbed Wednesday night in West Town, in the same spot as an attack in April.
Gary Eustice, 72, pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated cruelty to animals.
Ald. Willie Cochran pleaded not guilty in 2016 to a 15-count indictment charging him with wire fraud, bribery, and extortion, but had been negotiating a deal with federal prosecutors before rejecting a change of plea.
The trial begins Tuesday for three Chicago police officers charged with lying in official reports to cover up the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald.
Doris Moore's family found her on the floor of her home on the 300 block of West 115th Street around 7:30 p.m., according to police and the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
Police said a 61-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man were found shot inside a home near 66th and Lowe shortly before 10 a.m.
The death of a homeless woman outside a church in north suburban Evanston has been ruled a homicide, but authorities have not yet released the victim's name.
Chicago Police are warning West Woodlawn residents to be on alert after a man tried to lure a 10-year-old into a van.
"We have prepared for an active shooter, just because of the world that we live in these days, but obviously never in our wildest imagination would we ever think that we would ever have to experience it, and today we have," said Dr. Michael Davenport, chief medical officer at Mercy.
A 59-year-old woman has been charged with biting off a man's ear during a domestic dispute on Sunday in west suburban Aurora.
A woman was sexually assaulted and robbed while walking to the Red Line on the South Side early Sunday morning.
Detectives are trying to piece together what happened after Qantis Smith was shot and killed late Saturday night in the West Town neighborhood.
One of the victims was home from college for Thanksgiving, but his father said he'll now spend the holiday in the hospital.
Anthony Harrison was sentenced to 40 years in prison for stabbing, beating and strangling his wife in 2016.
Country Club Hills police shot a driver who allegedly hit an officer with his car Thursday night outside a bank.
Police said this was the second incident at that overpass and the third time an object has been thrown onto a roadway since Nov. 7.
Country Club Hills police shot a driver who allegedly hit an officer with his car Thursday night outside a bank, after an apparent ATM robbery.
