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Jim McPherson, 21, was indicted on first-degree murder charges for allegedly shooting Janay McFarlane, 18, the night of Feb. 15. The teenager's younger sister was in Chicago the same day her sister was shot, listening to President Obama's anti-violence speech.
A northwest suburban teenager was shot to death Tuesday night in what police say appears to be a gang-related killing.
Authorities were continuing their search Tuesday morning for the body of a Joliet woman who has been missing since last week, and believed to have been killed by her son.
The son of an O'Hare Airport security officer was charged with fatally stabbing his father to death early Sunday in his Morgan Park neighborhood home.
Mason Johnson, 24, has been charged with first degree murder after the fatal stabbing of his father, Kenneth Johnson, on March 24 in the 11400 block of South Rockwell Street.
When Patricia Howard realized she was standing next to the cousin of the taxi driver her son is accused of fatally shooting, she looked him in the eye and repeatedly told him she was sorry.
A Joliet man was charged Thursday evening with killing his mother earlier in the day and dumping her body in the Des Plaines River, according to police.
A 28-year-old man has been charged with killing and robbing a cab driver in the Princeton Park neighborhood last week.
Eric Anthony Brown is accused of firing into a Calumet City home Sunday night, killing 15-year-old Ashaya Miller and wounding a 19-year-old man.
A public defender's plea for a low bond so a murder suspect could take his college exams fell on deaf ears, as a judge set his bail at $500,000.
Jim Diaz, 25, faces first-degree murder charges in connection with the death of his roommate, Eber Ochoa-Deleon.
An Elgin man has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of a 33-year-old jewelry artist and burlesque performer earlier this month.
Funeral services have been set for 6-month-old Jonylah Watkins - gunned down this week on the South Side and Bulls Guard Derrick Rose has approached the funeral home - through his agent to offer to pay for some of the expenses of the funeral.
Newsradio spoke with one of the physicians who tried to save 6-month-old Jonylah Watkins in her final hours.
A $15,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the killer of a performance artist who was found stabbed to death in her Elgin townhouse March 2.
Victor Salinas-Corona, 17, is being held in lieu of $2 million bond for first-degree murder. His bond will be reconsidered at a bond review hearing scheduled for March 11.
A man has been charged with murder in connection with an August 2012 shooting in Logan Square that left one man dead and wounded another, authorities said.
It turns out a 33 year old woman was found dead in her Elgin townhome this weekend moved in just a week ago.
Bail was denied on Saturday for a 21-year-old man charged with the 2011 fatal shooting of a longtime cook at a South Side barbeque restaurant who was gunned down as he took a smoking break outside the restaurant.
19-year-old Amanda Bach was shot and killed two years ago. Now a jury convicted her ex-boyfriend Dustin McCowan of murder.
A married father of six allegedly murdered his friend because he wouldn't get inside a car after a night of revelry on the West Side.
After they allegedly murdered two young men, two of the four suspects involved in the savage and bizarre attack decided to have sex on top of the corpses, according to a published report.
Police say an argument between two men Sunday morning in the West Side Austin neighborhood led to one of them shooting the other one dead.
Less than a day after declaring his innocence at the top of his lungs during his sentencing hearing, former Bolingbrook cop Drew Peterson was transferred from the Will County Jail to a state prison in Pontiac to begin serving his 38-year sentence for murder.
Following a rambling, bizarre and emotional plea in which he forcefully denied being a killer, Drew Peterson was sentenced to 38 years in prison Thursday for murdering his third wife Kathleen Savio nearly 10 years ago.
