Expert: Courts Need Monitor To Oversee Boot Camp Sentences
Reports that Cook County judges have been improperly sentencing violent criminals to a boot camp reserved for non-violent offenders have prompted a criminal justice expert to call for a fix.
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Reports that Cook County judges have been improperly sentencing violent criminals to a boot camp reserved for non-violent offenders have prompted a criminal justice expert to call for a fix.
A Naperville man was charged with murder for allegedly shooting a man to death in a McDonald's parking lot in the Lincoln Square neighborhood Monday night.
The 44-year-old was shot in both legs and suffered a graze wound to his abdomen about 2:50 p.m. in the 4300 block of West Van Buren Street.
Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist who targeted blacks and Jews in a cross-country killing spree from 1977 to 1980, was put to death Wednesday in Missouri, the state's first execution in nearly three years.
Police found a submachine gun, a revolver, 156 bags of heroin, and 260 bags of heroin, during a search of a Gage Park apartment, after catching a man selling drugs.
Police credited a call from a local resident who provided a description of the thieves led officers to one of the suspects, and arrests of the other two soon followed.
In September, 29-year-old Chandus Ousley allegedly stabbed and killed 24-year-old April Dixon inside her apartment in the 3500 block of South Rhodes Avenue.
Brandon Torres, 21, was in the backseat of a vehicle in the 1600 block of West 44th Street early Sunday, when a gunman on the street started firing into the vehicle.
Shermain Miles read her Bible on the train, ignoring the wind's destruction outside as she returned to Chicago on Monday and prepared to pick up the pieces of her own shattered life.
A man was arrested after a Chicago Police squad car was stolen Monday morning in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side.
Eighteen people were wounded in shootings across the city this weekend, including fifteen who were shot between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Three people were wounded in a drive-by shooting early Sunday in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side.
A man was shot multiple times by a masked gunman in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side Saturday night.
After an earlier ruling limited how much of Delbert Cooper's past could be used at trial, prosecutors have again asked to admit Cooper's prior "bad acts" because of his claim of self defense in the 2011 death of his girlfriend.
A 17-year-old man who was shot multiple times in the Little Village neighborhood Thursday died from his wounds Friday afternoon.
A DeKalb County man pleaded guilty Thursday to driving under the influence of heroin when his SUV struck a car on a snow-packed highway last winter, killing an 11-year-old boy.
The man, thought to be in his 30s, was found shot in a gangway in the 8200 block of South Drexel Avenue about 8:45 a.m.
A Michigan man was ordered held on $2.5 million bond for allegedly shooting a man to death during a birthday party at a north suburban home early Saturday.
One man was killed and another wounded during a shooting Wednesday afternoon in the South Side Englewood neighborhood, police said.
A seventh man has been charged in connection with a September shooting that wounded 13 people, including a 3-year-old boy, in a Back of the Yards neighborhood park.
A South Side man already charged with another shooting is now charged with murder in connection with an August attack that killed one man and wounded four others outside an Uptown neighborhood church.
Two men were killed and five other people -- including a man in a wheelchair -- were wounded in shootings across the city from Tuesday afternoon to early Wednesday.
Sources said the man's friend was found shot to death in a stairwell less than two miles away last week, and authorities believe the deaths are related.
Justin Murray, 19, was fatally shot as he stood outside his grandmother's house on the 1800 block of Brown Street, in what police described as ongoing violence between warring families and individuals.
Just after 11 p.m., the man was found lying on the sidewalk in the 4200 block of West Lake Street with a gunshot wound to his head.
