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It's decision day for former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke. A Cook County judge will hand down his sentence for the 2014 murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
With Police Officer Jason Van Dyke facing a sentencing hearing this week in the shooting death of Laquan McDonald, his attorneys have submitted nearly 200 letters from family, friends, and fellow officers; asking a judge to give him only probation.
Lambasting 24-year-old Micheail Ward for a "complete absence of empathy," a Cook County judge on Monday sentenced him to 84 years in prison for the 2013 shooting death of honors student Hadiya Pendleton, just days after she performed in former President Barack Obama's second inaugural parade.
The man accused of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents will make his first court appearance Monday afternoon.
The man convicted of gunning down 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton in 2013 will learn his fate in court on Monday, nearly six years after the honors student was slain on the South Side.
A 21-year-old man has been charged with murder and kidnapping, in connection with the abduction of 13-year-old Jayme Closs, and the slayings of her parents.
An Indiana man has been charged with first-degree murder, after allegedly running over another man in the parking lot of the Chatham Ridge shopping center on the South Side on Monday.
Antoine Spann's pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit a forcible felony for the death of Demarcus "Peanut" Chew.
Authorities say the suspect in the New Year's Eve 2017 shooting death of a woman in Texas has been captured in northwestern Indiana.
A judge has issued an arrest warrant for a man wanted in the slaying of a cab driver over Labor Day weekend, but police said the man is now in China.
Days after a 67-year-old woman was found brutally slain in a Morgan Park alley, police have charged her son with murder.
A convicted murderer who claims Chicago police tortured him won't be home for the holidays after all.
A Milwaukee man convicted of beating, stabbing, and burning a teenager over a video gaming console was sentenced Monday. The judge called this case the worst homicide the city has seen in years.
A man convicted in the 2016 bludgeoning deaths of a man and woman in a suburban Chicago auto body shop has been sentenced to life in prison.
The three men charged with luring 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee into an alley in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood and killing him execution-style will go on trial in April, more than three years after the boy's death.
A DEA agent has been charged with helping an international drug trafficking ring smuggle guns and drugs, starting when he was an Evanston police detective.
A 16-year-old northern Indiana boy has been arrested in the killing of a 17-year-old pregnant schoolmate whose body was found in a restaurant dumpster, authorities said.
Police showed up after a 911 call when a car in the parking lot sped towards them, hitting a neighbor and one of the officers.
An 18-year-old man has been convicted of murder in the shooting death of a city employee outside a Bronzeville neighborhood Starbucks two years ago.
Des Plaines man is facing a murder charge after a suspicious death of a relative last month in Chicago's West Pullman neighborhood.
Monday night residents of Rogers Park joined together in Loyola Park to celebrate Hanukkah and remember 24-year-old Eliyahu Moscowitz, an Orthodox Jew who was shot and killed in October near Loyola Park.
Two teenagers charged as adults were ordered held without bail on Sunday, accused of killing two longtime friends, and leaving their bodies in a field on the Far South Side.
Anthony Harrison was sentenced to 40 years in prison for stabbing, beating and strangling his wife in 2016.
Prosecutors say they plan to rebuild a case against Gaege Bethune in the 2014 death of 19-year-old Pravin Varughese of Eldorado, Illinois.
A 27-year-old man has been arrested for murder in the slaying of a popular south suburban barber whose clients included at least two Chicago Bears players.
