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She lost her life over an iPhone at a CTA train stop. CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot has exclusive new details about what led police to Sally Katona-King's possible killer, a teenager who is being questioned in the case.
One of the final two defendants in the murder of Fenger High School honor student Derrion Albert has been sentenced to 32 years in prison.
A homeless man has been held without bond, on charges that he killed a 94-year-old World War II veteran who let the man stay at his home last year.
A Southwest Side man who was already being held in Cook County Jail when he was charged with the 2010 murders of three people found dead inside a car pleaded not guilty to the charges on Monday.
Authorities have slapped murder charges against an 18-year-old Ford Heights man who allegedly beat a bicyclist who later died of his injuries, the Cook County Sheriff's Office announced Monday.
A year after the murder of Chicago Police Officer Michael Bailey, no one has been formally charged with his death. But as CBS 2's Vince Gerasole reports, at a memorial service on Monday, there was reason for hope.
Authorities in Virginia begin legal proceedings Monday to extradite a teenaged suspect to North Carolina in the murder of a young woman from Chicago's south suburbs.
A 25-year-old man struck multiple times by gunfire from a drive-by shooting a few blocks from his home in the South Side Washington Park neighborhood Saturday night has died.
Elliot Mayfield, a drug user turned counselor, was with his 11-year-old daughter, a 15-year-old stepdaughter and a friend when he shot an aggressive drug dealer at a Woodlawn bus stop.
Autopsy results were expected Friday on a woman who was found raped and murdered in a vacant building in the Englewood neighborhood.
Attorneys for Drew Peterson are telling everybody associated with a movie project on Peterson to cease and desist - or face a lawsuit.
A former police officer is charged with conspiring to kill his girlfriend, with his son and another man as accomplices, near the campus of Dominican University in River Forest
Attorneys working with the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University will argue Wednesday before an Indiana appeals court, on behalf of a woman now serving 60-year sentence.
The Washington state man newly charged in the 1957 murder of a 7-year-old Sycamore girl is fighting extradition.
The DeKalb County prosecutor said Tuesday that the man accused in the 1957 kidnapping and murder of a 7-year-old girl could be sent back to Illinois within weeks.
Prosecutors and investigators are to hold a news conference in Sycamore this afternoon to release more information about their case against a defendant in a 54-year-old murder case.
Royal Dushan Marshall, 16, is accused of killing 80-year-old Anna Schulz at her Merrillville, Ind. home last week. Her throat had been cut, court records say.
Cook County prosecutors said Monday that a 16-year-old honor student was drunk on vodka and high on ecstasy and marijuana when he stole an SUV, fled from a traffic stop and then crashed into the car of a 911 dispatcher, killing her on Sunday.
A man was who was stabbed early Sunday at a park in the South Side Englewood neighborhood has died.
It was another violent weekend in Chicago, with gunfire and stabbings killing six people and leaving at least 21 hurt – including a 7-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl..
Anna Schulz, a longtime Gary, Ind. school teacher, was found dead in her home in Merrillville earlier this week.
The Seattle man charged with the murder of a 7-year-old girl more than half a century ago says he didn't do it, and he has an ironclad alibi.
An 80-year-old woman – a longtime teacher in northwestern Indiana – has been found slain inside her home.
A suspected killer dubbed "the Hollywood Ripper" has been charged in the 1993 stabbing death of a teenage girl from the northern suburbs.
A Seattle man arrested in the 1957 killing of a girl in Sycamore has been charged with being a fugitive, as authorities attempt to have him returned to Illinois to face murder charges.
