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Second person arrested and accused of pretending to be an ICE agent in Orland Park kidnapping

March 11, 2024 at 1:51 p.m.

A second person accused of kidnapping an Orland Park man while pretending to be a federal agent has turned himself in to face felony charges. Jaime Ortiz, of the 8000...

Man lived inside O’Hare for 3 months before detection, prosecutors say

January 18, 2021 at 1:19 p.m.

A California man who police said claimed to be too afraid to fly due to COVID-19 hid out for three months in a secured area of O'Hare International Airport until...

Aurora Beltran carries the box containing the ashes of her dad, Ruben Beltran, around to family members so they can say their final goodbyes during his burial service at Dundee Township East Cemetery on Saturday, November 14, 2020 in East Dundee. Ruben Beltran, 68, died of COVID-19 and pneumonia in late October. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

A pandemic’s cruel toll: More than 16,000 Illinoisans died from COVID-19 in 2020, disproportionately the elderly, poor, people of color

January 1, 2021 at 9:33 a.m.

A few weeks ago, as Dr. Marina Del Rios sat in a chair in front of photographers and received the first COVID-19 vaccine shot administered in Illinois, her mind focused...

Members of End Illinois Prison Lockdown Coalition rally as they call out Gov. J.B. Pritker for failure to protect the health and safety of those in prison from COVID-19, outside the Thompson Center in Chicago on Dec. 15, 2020.

COVID-19 cases and deaths are surging again in Illinois prisons, as inmates and advocates call for more action

June 14, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

As a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic spread rapidly through Illinois prisons this fall, 73-year-old Watson Gray made another plea to be released from Dixon Correctional Center, where new...

Dixon Correctional Center in Dixon on July 25, 2014. COVID-19 infections have been on the rise at the prison.

Illinois to expand testing of prison workers as inmate deaths, infections surge

December 7, 2020 at 7:53 p.m.

As the new COVID-19 surge continues racing through Illinois prisons, with a disturbing rise in inmate deaths in November plus the state's first staff fatality, corrections officials said they will...

Cook County detainee Devin Hodge, center, introduces a pit bull named Sarge to Ald. Raymond Lopez during Tails of Redemption graduation ceremony at Cook County Jail in 2019. Inmates were paired with a shelter dog for about eight weeks in the program.

Chicago alderman who got contributions from pet store owner flips on anti-puppy mill law

November 30, 2020 at 5:00 a.m.

A Chicago alderman who long championed the city's anti-puppy mill ordinance has reversed his position and wants to lift a key restriction on pet shops, a move that comes after...

A Lake County sheriff's deputy watches protesters outside the Lake County Courthouse on Sept. 25, 2020, in Waukegan. An extradition hearing was being held inside for Kyle Rittenhouse, of Antioch, who is charged in the fatal shootings of Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum in August during protests in Kenosha.

Video: Friend who bought gun for Kyle Rittenhouse told police teen predicted life behind bars after shooting 3 during Kenosha protests

November 20, 2020 at 4:25 p.m.

Kyle Rittenhouse predicted he would spend the rest of his life in prison after shooting three people during chaotic demonstrations in Kenosha over the summer, a close friend told police...

Alexis Hadac, a 19-year-old nanny and college student, stands in Chicago Women's Park & Gardens, where she and a friend were attacked by a woman and a young man.

Two charged in videotaped scuffle over ‘Biden 2020’ and other chalk writings in Chicago South Loop park

November 17, 2020 at 6:54 p.m.

A Chicago woman and man are facing misdemeanor charges for a post-Election Day scuffle captured on video that erupted in a South Side park over chalk markings scribbled on pavement...

Kyle Rittenhouse cried, vomited and worried about social media as he told Antioch cops, ‘I shot two white kids’

November 2, 2020 at 7:09 a.m.

Kyle Rittenhouse cried, vomited and worried about negative social media comments after turning himself in to a far north suburban police department following the fatal shooting of two protesters in...

Omar Muhammad, formerly known as Omar Saunders, from left, Marcellius Bradford, and Larry Ollins and his cousin Calvin Ollins gather at the Daley Plaza on Aug. 27, 2020.

A crime revisited: Ex-prosecutor’s role in decades-old wrongful conviction of ‘Roscetti 4’ takes spotlight in Foxx-O’Brien race

October 30, 2020 at 2:56 p.m.

Political ads from the campaign of incumbent Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx make a serious charge in the starkest of terms: that her opponent Pat O'Brien secured wrongful convictions...

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