Annie Sweeney

A review by a former federal judge of how Chicago police conduct street stops has found a troubling trend — supervisors assisting officers in revising hundreds of reports, sometimes multiple...

There was a time when Deonta Howard's family worried whether he would ever want to play in a park again. After all, Deonta was just 3 when he was shot...

Leslie Mayfield wasn't used to entering a courtroom except in shackles. Over the years, through his trial for conspiring to rob a drug stash house, his sentencing to a decadeslong...

Nearly two decades ago, Andre Williams says he struck up a friendship with Anthony Morgan while playing basketball at the courts at Dawes Park on Chicago's South Side. The two...

Childhood friends Jaylen Anderson and Earl Moore were playing basketball together in a South Side park on the fateful afternoon in November 2015 that 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee was executed in...

The approach by the men at the Dawes Park basketball court that afternoon was casual — one leaning on the hoop, the other peppering the young teens with flattering questions:...

They were friends and family from the old neighborhood gathered to celebrate the passing of one of their own. An argument broke out. Police say a woman chased down her...