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Judge Robert Adrian, center, heads into an Illinois Courts Commission hearing on Nov. 7, 2023, in Chicago. Adrian, who found an 18-year-old man guilty of sexual assaulting a 16-year-old girl, has come under fire after he later threw out the conviction, saying the 148 days the man spent in jail was punishment enough.

An Illinois judge reversed a sexual assault verdict he had rendered. A hearing will now decide whether he stays on the bench.

November 9, 2023 at 6:01 p.m.

Cameron Vaughan thought the worst was behind her. The 16-year-old had already told her parents what happened that night in May 2021, and then recounted each excruciating memory to the...

Mary Lou Dobrydnia has her lung capacity checked during recovery from botulism on Nov. 2, 1983, at Methodist Medical Center in Peoria. She ate a patty melt at the Skewer Inn at the Northwoods Mall in Peoria.

Peoria botulism outbreak, 40 years later: ‘It grabs hold of you and stays’

November 5, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Tracy Pinkham remembers all of it: The way the onions looked slimy and how she woke the next morning with a dry mouth and blurry vision that got worse as...

People attend a candlelight vigil for Wadea al-Fayoume in Oak Brook on Oct. 22, 2023.

Hundreds attend funeral of Palestinian boy as his accused attacker ordered detained on murder, hate crime charges

October 16, 2023 at 8:00 p.m.

After regularly listening to conservative talk radio and becoming "heavily interested" in the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas, Plainfield Township landlord Joseph Czuba on Saturday morning paid a visit...

The Willowbrook strip mall parking lot where 23 people were hit by gunfire, one fatally, during a Juneteenth celebration.

Four months later, DuPage County mass shooting puts spotlight on ‘lost community’

October 16, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Even now, more than 100 days later, the terrifying scenarios play on a loop in Twanda Carroll's mind. What if her apartment hadn't been empty that night in June? What...

Lt. Kirk Huot speaks to other volunteer firefighters during the Glen Ellyn Volunteer Fire Company training at a vacant motel in Glen Ellyn on Aug. 30, 2023.

Illinois is running out of volunteer firefighters: ‘It’s going to become very critical, very shortly’

September 24, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

DALZELL, Ill. — The 76-year-old man was sitting at his kitchen table one Tuesday morning in June when he lost consciousness and fell to the floor. A few blocks away,...

Rocky and Berenice Miller Park, home to Northwestern baseball, on July 10 in Evanston.

Northwestern baseball, mired in controversy, hires Ben Greenspan as new coach to replace Jim Foster

August 21, 2023 at 10:07 a.m.

Ben Greenspan has been hired as Northwestern's new baseball coach, the university announced Friday. Greenspan takes over for Jim Foster, who was dismissed in July amid allegations of bullying and...

Then-Northwestern University baseball coach Jim Foster prepares for a game against the University of Notre Dame at Wrigley Field, May 16, 2023.

Ex-Northwestern baseball staffers file suit, accuse university of allowing coach to create ‘dangerous environment’

August 15, 2023 at 3:17 p.m.

Three former staff members with Northwestern University's baseball program filed a lawsuit Monday morning that accuses the university of failing to protect them and players from "an abusive, toxic and...

Northwestern's Ryan Field on Monday, July 10, 2023,

Northwestern lacrosse player’s lawsuit charges school was warned about baseball player whom she says sexually assaulted her

August 14, 2023 at 7:22 a.m.

A Northwestern University lacrosse player has filed a federal negligence lawsuit claiming that the school was warned about a baseball player whom she accuses of sexually assaulting her. "Rather than...

Campton Hills police chief probe includes missing guns in evidence room, records show

August 11, 2023 at 12:19 p.m.

An ongoing Illinois State Police probe of Campton Hills police Chief Steven Millar appears to involve questions about missing guns and access to the police department's evidence room, records show....

Then-U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, joined by then-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, speaks Jan. 13, 2017, during a conference to announce the conclusions of a Justice Department investigation into civil rights violations by Chicago police.

Northwestern, amid hazing fallout, taps former US Attorney General Loretta Lynch to review athletics programs

August 2, 2023 at 6:54 a.m.

Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch will lead a sweeping review of Northwestern University and its beleaguered athletics department, university leaders announced Tuesday amid the fallout of a football hazing...

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