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The Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, left, at Federal Plaza in Chicago on Feb. 4, 2025. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Downers Grove man charged with making online threats to shoot immigration agents

September 5, 2025 at 5:15 p.m.

A Downers Grove man who allegedly kept bullets in his home scrawled with the names of political figures was charged Friday with posting a series of increasingly violent social media...

The main gate of Naval Station Great Lakes before sunset on Sept 2, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Feds want 13 1/2 years for ex-Navy sailor who plotted terror attack at Naval Station Great Lakes

September 5, 2025 at 2:15 p.m.

Federal prosecutors are asking for a sentence of more than 13 years in prison for a former U.S. Navy sailor who they say "aspired to be a merchant of death,"...

A U.S. marshal talks with people as security fencing that was installed Thursday night now surrounds the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago on Sept. 5, 2025. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Security fencing at Chicago’s federal courthouse an early sign of Trump immigration push

September 5, 2025 at 5:44 p.m.

One of the first visible signs of President Donald Trump's expected immigration-enforcement push went up overnight in downtown Chicago in the form of 10-foot high fencing surrounding the Dirksen U.S....

Marking the start of the school year, Gov. JB Pritzker, right, greets teachers and staff members at Prairie Oak Elementary School in Berwyn, Sept. 4, 2025. Pritzker was at the school to talk about the impacts of pending federal actions on school communities. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Gov. JB Pritzker, others in Chicago preach peaceful protests as naval base OK’d for immigration enforcement

September 4, 2025 at 8:35 p.m.

As federal immigration enforcement threats continue, Gov. JB Pritzker and others call for peaceful protests to decrease chance President Donald Trump sends military personnel to Chicago.

A bullet-riddled car sits at the intersection of Hubbard Street and Lamon Avenue, where 21-year-old Ernest "Pee Wee" Moore was slain on Dec. 23, 2002, allegedly by members of the Wicked Town gang. (U.S. attorney's office)

Wicked Town gang leaders plead guilty on eve of retrial for racketeering, murder, will receive lighter sentences

September 2, 2025 at 4:03 p.m.

The reputed leader of Chicago’s Wicked Town gang faction and one of his top lieutenants pleaded guilty Tuesday to racketeering conspiracy involving a string of murders, shootings and robberies in exchange...

Feds: Suburban man solicited sex videos that led to asphyxiation death of British teen

August 29, 2025 at 5:32 p.m.

A southwest suburban man has been charged with soliciting pornographic videos from a 13-year-old British girl who was found by her mother in her bedroom hanged from the charging cord...

Reputed mob boss Michael Sarno appears Nov 10, 2010, during his federal trial. (Nancy Stone/baiduhai)

Judge denies early release for convicted Outfit boss Mike Sarno, who says he’s a ‘pathetic shadow’ of former self

August 28, 2025 at 12:26 p.m.

Michael "The Large Guy" Sarno has lost his latest bid for early release from prison after a judge ruled the onetime leader of the Outfit's Cicero faction was still a...

Feds charge two women with assaulting federal agents during West Side immigration raid

August 26, 2025 at 6:43 p.m.

Two Chicago women are facing federal assault charges stemming from a scuffle with agents during an immigration enforcement action on the West Side over the weekend.

The Illinois State Police District Chicago headquarters on Feb. 12, 2015, in Des Plaines. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

State trooper, a former youth hockey referee, arrested on federal child porn charges

August 16, 2025 at 11:26 a.m.

An Illinois state trooper who also served as a youth hockey referee was arrested on child pornography charges this week while at work at the agency's Des Plaines headquarters, authorities...

The Dirksen U.S. Courthouse at left and the Kluczynski Federal Building at right frame the American flag in downtown Chicago, Jan. 22, 2018. (Nancy Stone/baiduhai)

Reputed cartel figure wanted in Chicago for narcotics trafficking among those sent from Mexico

August 13, 2025 at 4:09 p.m.

A cartel figure wanted in Chicago on drug trafficking charges was among more than two-dozen fugitives sent to the U.S. by Mexico this week as part of a deal with...

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