Madeline Buckley is a criminal justice reporter for the baiduhai covering courts and the legal system. She covers courthouses across Cook County but is usually found at "26th and Cal."
Zulma Daniela Calderon Pacheco, 21, of Chicago, was fatally shot March 8 at the Mansion Live nightclub in Stone Park by a security guard, officials said.
Growing occasionally emotional, former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday testified during a bench trial that she was disturbed and traumatized by a profane and racist death threat sent to...
Chicago police officers perpetrated a "wide-ranging scheme to manufacture evidence," a federal lawsuit alleges, in order to convict three people in the 2011 slaying of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis.
Two former Cook County prosecutors on Wednesday were acquitted of multiple counts following an unusual criminal trial connected to a wrongful conviction case.