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Two views of an animated video portraying Officer Jason Van Dyke and Laquan McDonald is shown to the jury during the trial for the shooting death of McDonald at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on Sept. 25, 2018.

Jurors don’t want judge to give Jason Van Dyke ‘slap on the wrist’ at Friday’s sentencing

May 23, 2019 at 1:39 a.m.

Before being led into a packed courtroom to announce their verdict in the historic trial of Jason Van Dyke, a few jurors huddled near a fifth-floor window in the deliberations...

Woman forcibly stripped in LaSalle County jail sues sheriff; incident captured on video

January 15, 2019 at 4:54 p.m.

Nearly five years after LaSalle County authorities paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to settle lawsuits by female inmates who were stripped naked in the local jail, another woman is...

Former Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President Dean Angelo Sr., right, sits next to Tiffany Van Dyke, wife of former Chicago Officer Jason Van Dyke, at a court hearing in September. At left is Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President Kevin Graham.

Chicago police union takes no disciplinary action against ex-president for comments to news media during Van Dyke trial

May 23, 2019 at 1:39 a.m.

An attempt to oust a former president of the union representing thousands of rank-and-file Chicago police officers failed after the local’s executive board refused Tuesday to impose any discipline. The...

Ex-Officer Joseph Walsh, from left, former Detective David March and Chicago police Officer Thomas Gaffney arrive in court on the first day of their trial at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago on Nov. 27, 2018. Special prosecutor Patricia Brown Holmes stands at right.

Judge in code-of-silence trial reschedules ruling on fate of 3 Chicago cops until next month

May 23, 2019 at 1:36 a.m.

A Cook County judge on Wednesday rescheduled until next month her ruling on the fate of three current or former Chicago police officers on trial on charges of covering up...

Charles Golbert, acting Cook County public guardian, appears with plaintiffs Skylar L. and Burl F. after announcing a class-action lawsuit against DCFS in Chicago on Dec. 13, 2018. The Tribune is not using full names to protect the privacy of the teens.

DCFS sued over ‘inhumane’ practice of leaving kids too long in psych hospitals

May 23, 2019 at 1:34 a.m.

Cook County’s public guardian sued the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services on Thursday, alleging the beleaguered child welfare agency is causing “immense harm” to mentally ill foster children...

Tiffany Van Dyke, center, with Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President Kevin Graham, left, and former FOP President Dean Angelo Sr. during a pretrial hearing for her husband Jason Van Dyke on Sept. 1, 2018, in Chicago.

Ex-president of Chicago police union facing possible discipline for comments to reporters

May 23, 2019 at 1:34 a.m.

A former president of the union that represents thousands of rank-and-file Chicago police officers is facing possible discipline from the local he once led for speaking to the news media...

5 takeaways from the final day in trial of alleged police cover-up in Laquan McDonald shooting

May 23, 2019 at 1:33 a.m.

After five days of testimony stretched over two weeks, Cook County Judge Domenica Stephenson announced Thursday that she will rule Dec. 19 on whether three former and current Chicago police...

Trial over alleged police cover-up of Laquan McDonald’s shooting closes with rhetorical fireworks

May 23, 2019 at 1:33 a.m.

Much of the evidence in the landmark conspiracy case against three Chicago cops was sterile and dry, relying on reams of fine-print paperwork and obscure internal police procedures. But the...

Chicago Lakeshore Hospital's 60-bed children's unit is at 4720 N. Clarendon Ave. in Uptown. The hospital faces state and federal scrutiny after a rise in complaints alleging sexual and physical abuse.

Feds threaten to yank funding of Uptown psychiatric hospital following child abuse complaints

May 23, 2019 at 1:32 a.m.

Federal authorities are once again threatening to cut off funding for an embattled Uptown psychiatric hospital beset by complaints of physical and sexual abuse of young patients, including foster children...

LaSalle County Deputy Sheriff William Dummett, sitting, and Sheriff Ray Eutsey, right, look at a film taken by the Rev. Aubrey W. Heflin, left, as he describes the film March 29, 1960. Heflin had been sightseeing at the park on the day the three women were killed.

Starved Rock killer falls one vote short of parole after nearly 60 years in prison

December 12, 2018 at 2:11 a.m.

A 79-year-old man serving a life sentence for the 1960 killing of three Riverside women at Starved Rock State Park fell one vote short of winning his release on Thursday....

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