Police: Teen Beaten To Death On North Side
A teenager was beaten to death over the weekend in the North Side's Budlong Woods neighborhood.
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A teenager was beaten to death over the weekend in the North Side's Budlong Woods neighborhood.
Two CTA passengers who beat and chased another man on a Red Line subway platform where he fell and was electrocuted were convicted of murder Monday.
Charges were upgraded to murder this week for two women accused of robbing and using a steel barbell in Feb. 2009 to beat a 73-year-old woman.
The father of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico, who was raped and murdered in 1983, said he was "disgusted" but not surprised that Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation ending the death penalty and commuted the sentence of his daughter's killer to life in prison.
A South Side father has pleaded not guilty to the 2008 murder of 9-year-old daughter.
A judge will decide next month whether a 24-year-old Chicago man will spend decades in prison, for a murder he committed many years after witnessing the murder of his 5-year-old brother.
For the first time on Tuesday, former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle publicly admitted having a sexual relationship with Marni Yang, the woman charged with killing his pregnant girlfriend in 2007.
Alma Mendez went for a run in October 2007 on a Chicago Heights trail and never returned. Her sisters want help in solving her violent death.
A man found decomposed and partially buried in a wooded area Friday afternoon in the East Chicago neighborhood was murdered, an autopsy found Saturday.
Police continue to investigate a drive-by shooting in Rogers Park that left one man dead and another wounded over the weekend.
A Chicago man suspected of a race-related shooting death last October tried to flee the country to London, but was deported back to the U.S. and arrested in New Jersey.
A southwest suburban teenager who robbed and fatally shot an ice cream vendor in what prosecutors called "a callous act of greed and brutality" was sentenced Friday to 45 years in prison.
Opening statements are expected to begin Friday in the trial of Marni Yang, the woman charged with killing the pregnant girlfriend of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle.
Police in northwest suburban Rolling Meadows have taken out an arrest warrant for a man suspected of killing his brother.
There are ways to impress a woman, but telling her you just killed two people and that she might be next is probably not the most skillful way to do it.
A man who was recorded on a Cook County Jail phone confessing to the slaying of a man and a woman in their Albany Park neighborhood home last year pleaded not guilty to the murders on Tuesday.
A request for a makeover could delay the trial of a woman accused of killing the pregnant girlfriend of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle.
A Schaumburg man has been charged with shooting and killing another man in the West Side's North Austin neighborhood in 2009.
Relatives of Rhoni Reuter plan to attend the Marni Yang murder trial next week, according to the family's attorney.
A convicted felon was indicted Wednesday in the 1983 murder of a CTA bus driver, a month after he was arrested when new DNA evidence linked him to the crime.
Court appearances are scheduled today for defendants in two high-profile Illinois murder cases.
A Lake County judge has ruled that prosecutors may play two wiretap recordings in which Marni Yang allegedly admits killing the pregnant girlfriend of ex-Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle when Yang goes on trial for murder next month.
A 19-year-old man has been charged with murder in a drive-by shooting in the Grand Crossing neighborhood last summer.
A history-making hearing took place Wednesday afternoon in the Drew Peterson case.
A northwest suburban man has been ordered held on $10 million bond, charged with stabbing his wife to death in front of their 9-year-old daughter on Valentine's Day.
