Alleged Hobos Gang Leader Takes Stand In Federal Trial
The man with the nickname "Bowlegs" slowly walked to the witness stand, faced a federal judge and raised his right hand.
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The man with the nickname "Bowlegs" slowly walked to the witness stand, faced a federal judge and raised his right hand.
Abimbola Sheleru and a friend were leaving a party at Bombay Hall in the West Ridge neighborhood early in the morning of Nov. 20 when a man jumped out of a car and shot him multiple times.
A cousin of alleged Hobos leader Gregory "Bowlegs" Chester took the witness stand Tuesday as Chester and five other allegedly high-ranking gang members set out to defend themselves in a federal racketeering trial that has already lasted 12 weeks.
The trial still isn't over, but U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp Jr. has said he is determined to end it by Christmas.
Byron Johnson was jailed without bond Monday on one count of first-degree murder, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County sheriff's office.
Rashad Williams was taken into custody Sunday night in Chicago Heights, three days after a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Harvey police said Rashad Williams is known to carry at least two guns at a time, and should be considered armed and extremely dangerous.
Derrick Kees is a former El Rukn enforcer who took orders back in the 1980s from the gang's onetime leader, Jeff Fort.
A west suburban man has been sentenced to 48 years in prison for beating his his ex-girlfriend to death more than two years ago in Aurora.
A man already serving a year in federal prison for dealing cocaine will serve an additional two months in jail for refusing to testify against Chicago's so-called "super gang," the Hobos.
Keith Daniels did an extraordinary amount of gambling near the end of his life, his girlfriend testified Tuesday. And it appears the late FBI informant gambled with more than money.
A former El Rukn general and killer suspected of hatching a secret deal for early release testified Monday that "there wasn't nothing in it" for him when he helped the city of Chicago defend a lawsuit brought by a man he was once convicted beside.
When a masked gunman ambushed her family sedan in April 2013, Shanice Peatry reached around to her two startled children, pushing her 6-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter down into the back seat as bullets flew toward the car.
First-degree murder and predatory criminal sexual assault charges have been filed against a southern Illinois man accused in the death of an 8-year-old Olney girl.
Illinois authorities have arrested a man in the death of an 8-year-old Olney girl who went missing last week.
A Decatur man who spent 18 years in prison for murder was released Wednesday after DNA evidence got him a new trial and prosecutors declined to try him again.
A grandfather has been charged with the murder of his 2-month-old granddaughter while he was babysitting in the West Side Austin neighborhood in July.
Three suspects have been charged in Michael Smith's January murder, Brookfield police announced Monday.
The mother of one of two teenagers accused of killing Javon Wilson, the grandson of Congressman Danny Davis, offered an apology to the boy's family Sunday night, and said her daughter is "devastated" by what happened.
Tariq Harris, 16, and Diajae Banks, 17, were denied bail. Harris and Banks were charged as adults with first-degree murder and home invasion in the death of Wilson, who was shot in the neck Friday at his Englewood home.
Two teenagers were charged with first-degree murder Sunday in the fatal shooting of an Illinois congressman's grandson following an argument over a pair of basketball shoes.
A man has been charged with stabbing another man to death Wednesday evening at Hawthorne Race Course in southwest suburban Stickney.
Rondale Parker allegedly shot Laron McCoy in the head about 1:15 p.m. July 5 during an argument over a car in the 8100 block of South Burnham, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Corey Binns, 24, faces one count of first-degree murder for the June 24 shooting of 25-year-old Jeremy Clark, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
A Cook County judge has denied bail to a Rockford man accused of killing and dismembering a 2-year-old boy last year, because the lactose-intolerant toddler wouldn't stop crying after he was given milk to drink.
