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Nancy Rish is interviewed at the Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln, Illinois, on April 28, 2014.

‘It is bittersweet,’ says attorney for Nancy Rish, who walked free Thursday after winning appeal on life sentence for infamous 1987 killing

February 10, 2022 at 9:07 p.m.

Nancy Rish, who was originally serving a life sentence for the 1987 kidnapping and murder of Stephen Small, a Kankakee businessman who suffocated after being buried alive, walked free Thursday...

Chicago police officers during the funeral Mass for Chicago police Officer Ella French on Aug. 19, 2021, at St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel.

Woman, 26, accused of trashing memorial photo of slain CPD Officer Ella French, bragging about it on social media, prosecutors say

February 10, 2022 at 4:05 p.m.

A 26-year-old Chicago woman is accused of taking the photo of slain Officer Ella French off a memorial to her, throwing it in the trash and later posting pictures of...

Chicago police Officer C. Smith canvasses the 3300 block of South Prairie Avenue on Feb. 9, 2022, where 15-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed Tuesday.

Top cop announces charges for boys 15 and 16, following fatal shooting of Bronzeville teen who was ‘always there to help anybody,’ his mother says

February 9, 2022 at 8:04 p.m.

Michael Brown was a loving, sweet high school freshman who dreamed of playing college basketball or designing video games, his mother said. The 15-year-old was fatally shot Tuesday in the...

Officers work the scene where a 16-year-old was shot on the 6200 block of South Greenwood Avenue in the Woodlawn neighborhood on Feb. 8, 2022, in Chicago.

Boy, 15, fatally shot near Bronzeville identified; 16-year-old fatally shot an hour later in Woodlawn

February 9, 2022 at 1:32 p.m.

Two teenage boys, 15 and 16, were fatally shot in the head about an hour apart Tuesday in different neighborhoods and Chicago police, investigating both as homicides, have detained three...

Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx watches as Chicago police Supt. David Brown addresses news media about the arrest of an alleged organized retail theft ringleader named Tacarre Harper, at police headquarters on Feb. 8, 2022, in Chicago.

Suspected ‘ringleader’ of smash-and-grab crew charged in multiple burglaries downtown and Northwest Side, top cop says

February 9, 2022 at 2:56 p.m.

A Maywood man was arrested Monday after Chicago police identified him as the "ringleader" of a group involved in a series of retail burglaries on the Northwest Side and downtown...

Chicago man, 55, accused of spitting in FBI agent’s face outside FBI field office

February 8, 2022 at 4:55 p.m.

A 55-year-old Chicago man is accused of spitting in the face of an FBI special agent, then saying, "Good luck proving it — there's no video" when the agent told...

Chicago police Superintendent David Brown speaks alongside Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Jan. 4.

Chicago’s carjacking task force to be staffed 24 hours a day amid rise in violent crime

February 7, 2022 at 5:25 p.m.

Chicago is expanding its carjacking task force as residents remain concerned about high violent crime, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and police Superintendent David Brown announced. Brown said the task force is...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot attends a news conference at City Hall on Jan. 10, 2022, in Chicago.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Chicago police leaders defend reform record as Jason Van Dyke set to be released from prison

February 1, 2022 at 6:23 p.m.

The former Chicago police officer who fatally shot Laquan McDonald in 2014 is set to be released from prison on Thursday. Ahead of his release, Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday...

Community activist Will Calloway speaks on Jan. 27, 2022, at St. Sabina Church with other leaders and family members of Laquan McDonald to demand federal charges against former Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke.

Chicago Police Department slow to make reform progress since the shooting of Laquan McDonald and still in need of a cultural change, experts say

January 31, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

The shooting of Laquan McDonald triggered a momentous police reform effort that spawned a scathing Justice Department report and an extensive consent decree and for the first time added community...

Illinois State Police and Chicago police maintain a crime scene at 110th Street and Avenue E in Chicago after an off-duty Illinois State Police trooper and a woman were found dead with gunshot wounds to their heads inside a vehicle there on Jan. 24, 2022.

State police trooper, woman found shot and killed on Far South Side

January 25, 2022 at 7:39 a.m.

An off-duty Illinois State Police trooper and a woman were found dead with gunshot wounds to their heads inside a vehicle on the Far South Side Monday, according to state...

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