City gang kingpins vanishing
In a city where legendary street gang leaders Jeff Fort and Larry Hoover took their place beside Al Capone in the local criminal hall of fame, the powerful Chicago gang...
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Mall threats downplayed by officials
Law enforcement officials Thursday downplayed the significance of an "uncorroborated" threat that terrorists may attack Chicago shopping centers during the upcoming holiday season. Arthur Everett, assistant special agent-in-charge of the...
24 are arrested in alleged fake ID scheme at O’Hare
Federal and local law enforcement agents raided several warehouses Wednesday at O'Hare International Airport and arrested 24 workers who were allegedly in the country illegally and using phony security badges...
Priest gets bail in abuse charges
A Jesuit priest accused last week of abusing a teenage boy he took on overseas trips can await trial at his Oak Lawn apartment, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, rejecting...
Ryan down to last hope
After losing another appeal Thursday, former Gov. George Ryan's dimming hope for a new trial now relies on a forceful dissenting opinion—joined by one of the nation's most influential judges—that...
Fitzgerald closes case of unmarried prosecutor
Sorry ladies, Chicago's ranking crime fighter is off the market. Less than two years after making People magazine's list of the sexiest men alive, it was revealed Thursday that U.S....
10 murders laid at feet of 3 in mob
Jurors assigned blame in some of the most infamous gangland killings in the city's history Thursday, agreeing with prosecutors that the Chicago Outfit used fists, ropes, knives, guns and a...
10 murders laid at feet of 3 in mob
Jurors assigned blame in some of the most infamous gangland killings in the city's history Thursday, agreeing with prosecutors that the Chicago Outfit used fists, ropes, knives, guns and a...
5 guilty in Outfit trial
As the jury's sweeping guilty verdict came crashing down Monday on the Chicago Outfit, the five defendants in the Family Secrets conspiracy trial sat still, their faces fixed in emotionless...
Feds join in probe of city’s elite police
The U.S. attorney's office has joined the ongoing criminal probe of an elite squad of the Chicago Police Department, working with Cook County prosecutors to investigate why police officials did...