Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO (WGN) — Former Chicago alderman Ed Burke was released from prison Tuesday after serving less than 10 months of his ...

A habitual criminal from Chicago whose record stretches back four decades has been sentenced to six years in state prison after prosecutors said he broke into two businesses less than two days after ...

We do not dispute that prosecuting violent offenders matters. What we dispute is the idea that the carceral approach alone ...

A Chicago man has been sentenced to 65 years in prison for the execution-style murder of a senior citizen in Chinatown in 2021. Alphonso Joyner, 27, was convicted in October in the shooting death of ...

A Chicago man who spent 29 years in prison for a crime he did not commit is now suing the police officers who put him there. Jerry Herrington's murder conviction was vacated in March. The lawsuit said ...

A Chicago man who admitted to cyberstalking and harassing multiple former romantic partners has been sentenced to four years in federal prison, according to prosecutors.

The deaths of six inmates at a Chicago prison have exposed a drug-smuggling ring. Instead of conventional narcotics, traffickers found a new and creative way to get drugs into prisons by lacing paper ...

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Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 6, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. 1872: The Tribune reported a Black fire ...