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CHICAGO - A convenience store owner has learned his fate after being found guilty in a long-running scheme to defraud a food assistance program for low-income women and children. What we know:. Hassan Abdellatif, 37, of Chicago, was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison. Prosecutors said that from 2010...

Attorney Jeff Hampton, who runs the Hampton Law channel and calls himself “the people’s lawyer,” says a Chicago case involving federal agents should scare anyone who thinks “that could never happen to me.” In his video, Hampton claims U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot a local teacher five times during an...

DNA experts have solved the mystery of an Illinois man who went missing nearly 50 years ago.

Chicago taxpayers will pay $500,000 to resolve a lawsuit filed by a man who was charged with a murder in 2020 based on an alert from the city’s now-defunct gunshot detection system, according to court records. Michael Williams, then 65, spent nearly a year in jail after being charged...

CHICAGO — An investigation is underway on Tuesday morning after a man was found shot to death in a home on the city’s Far South Side overnight. According to Chicago police, just before 10 p.m. Monday, officers were called to a residence in the 10600 block of South Forest Avenue, in Roseland, on a report […]

A driver was killed in a fiery crash involving five vehicles on I-90 on Tuesday night in Cook County.

A tow truck driver in Illinois is facing charges for allegedly stealing multiple vehicles and selling them to scrappers, authorities said. Illinois State Police said the investigation began when a victim contacted them on Feb. 12 to report their vehicle had been stolen from the site of a crash off the Bishop Ford...

Reported gang violence in Albany Park leaves one dead Suspected gang-related violence resulted in the shooting death of a man and others being injured at about 2:50 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, in the basement of a residence in the 4900 block of North Harding Avenue in the 17th (Albany Park) District, according to Chicago...

One person was killed and another injured in a fiery five-vehicle crash on the Kennedy Expressway on the Northwest Side Tuesday night, authorities said.

CHICAGO - Two men were charged in the shooting of a 55-year-old man last December on Chicago's West Side. Terry Williams, 63, and Ricky Williams, 66, were each charged with attempted first-degree murder and three different counts of aggravated battery in the Dec. 20, 2025 shooting, according to Chicago police.