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CHICAGO — Officials have charged a man with violently attacking a Chinatown restaurant employee last year and stabbing a man during a separate incident in the neighborhood last week. Prosecutors did not ask a judge to detain the man, 37-year-old Juan Madrigal, so he was sent home on an ankle monitor.

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An illegal alien gang member has been caught on camera assaulting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer after the sanctuary city of Denver, Colorado, set him free to the “streets,” according to new records. At a hearing on Wednesday, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D) was one of...

PORTAGE, Ind. — A “romantic rivalry” lead to a shooting and SWAT situation in Northwest Indiana, according to police. Just after 4:20 p.m., Portage police responded to the 200 block of Greta Court on the report of a man being shot. Police learned that the shooting had actually occurred in the 300 block of Jacobs […]

EDWARDSVILLE/CHICAGO – Today, Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Central Management Services (CMS) announced two Spring Career Fairs this month targeting former federal workers: one in Edwardsville and one in Chicago. Taking place March 6 at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and March 20 at...

CHICAGO — A fatal shooting on the Dan Ryan Expressway near Sox Park last year stemmed from a rivalry between two factions of the Moe Town P-Stones street gang, prosecutors said as they filed the first charges in the case. Around 8:45 p.m. on June 7, an IDOT worker...

ILLINOIS — A routine traffic stop on March 1 led to the arrest of two Benton, Illinois, residents on multiple charges, including unlawful possession of a weapon. Christopher police officers pulled over the vehicle driven by 22-year-old Dalexis D. Ransom and 21-year-old Marshun D. Johnson after observing several...

CHICAGO — Some Illinois state legislators are trying to make it legal for people who might appear to be having a mental health episode to attack police officers. But it would still be illegal to attack firemen like the one the bill’s chief sponsor is married to. Rep....

WASHINGTON - Mayor Brandon Johnson defended Chicago's sanctuary city status in his opening statements today to the House oversight committee. Johnson defended the city's public safety efforts and immigration policies, emphasizing that crime rates have declined under his administration. He highlighted initiatives like...

Illinois police said that a man seen entering a home in Cicero with several jugs before that building exploded was the one responsible for the blast. The post ‘I ran here in my wedding dress’: Man blew up newlyweds’ apartment during ceremony, causing his own demise, police say first appeared on Law & Crime .