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Susan Battaglia, center, mother of Brittany Battaglia, leaves court following a lunch break in the trial of Genesis Silva, who is charged with concealing his girlfriend’s nearly-decapitated body in a duffel bag. Brittany Battaglia, 33, had been missing for days when her body was found with stab wounds in Silva’s Logan Square apartment in a duffel bag along with a machete and bags of cleaning equipment in June 2023. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Trial begins for man accused of killing woman, putting her in duffel bag in Logan Square

March 3, 2026 at 2:45 p.m.

A trial begins for a Logan Square man accused of killing his girlfriend and stuffing her body into a duffel bag.

Night falls on Loretto Hospital in the 5500 block of West Flournoy Street on Jan. 12, 2022, in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

‘Just trying to provide for his family’: Judge orders woman detained in slaying of Uber Eats driver

February 25, 2026 at 3:40 p.m.

The judge ordered the 33-year-old be held in the slaying of an Uber Eats driver killed outside Loretto Hospital on Chicago’s West Side.

U.S. Border Patrol agents detain a driver on Cicero Avenue while conducting an immigration operation in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood on Dec. 16, 2025. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Cook County top prosecutor circulates policy outlining process for charging federal immigration agents

February 19, 2026 at 4:55 p.m.

The Cook County state's attorney's office on Thursday released a protocol outlining the steps for filing charges against federal immigration agents, marking the first official policy from the office on...

Chicago police Detective Richard Zuley talks to people at Argyle Street and North Broadway on Jan. 25, 1990, in Chicago where he was working on a 1988 murder case. (George Thompson/baiduhai)

Former CPD detective who spent time at Guantanamo denied coercing suspects: ‘Interrogation doesn’t work’

February 18, 2026 at 5:51 p.m.

Former Chicago police Detective Richard Zuley once spent time on a special assignment at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, but on the witness stand on Wednesday, the retired investigator took...

Hong Li Yang leaves the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago after Alvin Thomas was sentenced in a double homicide Feb. 11, 2026. Yang's husband at the time was one of the victims. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

‘Ripped away from us by a gunshot’: Man gets life sentence in Chinatown double homicide

February 11, 2026 at 4:56 p.m.

The sentencing hearing unfolded almost exactly six years after the slaying that rattled the tight-knit Chinatown community just a month before much of the world shut down at the beginning...

Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks at the Choose Chicago gathering at the Hyatt Regency Chicago on Feb. 10, 2026. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Mayor Brandon Johnson says he won’t have say in charging ICE agents after prosecutor pushback

February 10, 2026 at 5:28 p.m.

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday said he will not refer alleged cases of misconduct by federal immigration agents to the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.

Four-year-old Josiah, with his grandmother Mariely Rivera, and great-grandfather, Carlos Rivera, visit the grave of his mother, Stephanie Gutiérrez, who was killed in 2022, at Fairview Memorial Park in Northlake, Jan. 15, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

‘I feel like there’s no help’: Mother, family members question lack of charges in woman’s 2022 shooting death

February 10, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Stephanie Gutierrez was found fatally shot on a Chicago sidewalk in 2022, launching her family on a quest for justice in a case police consider cleared because detectives submitted it...

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke said Mayor Brandon Johnson's executive order about federal immigration agents' alleged misconduct would politicize investigations.

Mayor Johnson’s ICE executive order would compromise investigations of immigration agents, state’s attorney says

February 8, 2026 at 8:27 a.m.

In a memo sent to employees on Friday, the policy chief for Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke said the city's "ICE on notice" executive order compromises potential prosecutions...

Rose pedals float in DuSable Harbor in Chicago as loved ones of Nabil “Capt. Bill” Abzal are reflected in the water following a private memorial for the charter boat captain on Sept. 6, 2025. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Man charged with murder in drowning death of Chicago charter boat captain at DuSable Harbor

February 5, 2026 at 4:30 p.m.

Cook County prosecutors have charged a man with murder in the August drowning death of a beloved Chicago charter boat captain, alleging that the man trespassed onto the DuSable Harbor...

Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson holds a news conference at City Hall on Jan. 27, 2026. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Cook County state’s attorney’s office reviewing legality of mayor’s immigration executive order

February 2, 2026 at 7:06 p.m.

The Cook County state’s attorney’s office on Monday said “a thorough analysis is being conducted” to assess the legality of a mayoral executive order that directs Chicago police to investigate...

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