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When prosecutors ask a judge to detain someone during their first appearance on a new felony charge at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago, the judge will side with prosecutors nearly 7 out of 10 times. That is, unless prosecutors are asking Judge D’Anthony Thedford. Thedford, who began hearing...

In a career that ran from beat officer to Evanston police chief, William “Bill” C. McHugh considered one arrest as a “once in a lifetime moment,” he once said. Carlos Alberto Torres, No.1 on the FBI’s most-wanted list, and eight other members of the revolutionary Puerto Rican FALN terrorist group were in a van parked a

CHICAGO - Two people were hurt, one critically, after the car they were in slammed into a wall on Chicago’s Northwest Side early Sunday morning. Officers responded a little before 3 a.m. to the 5500 block of W. Grand Avenue in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood, according to the Chicago Police Department.

ILLINOIS — Illinois schools across parts of the state could face closures or delays Monday as a significant severe weather outbreak is expected to develop across the Midwest, according to the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center. The SPC’s latest Day 2 Convective Outlook places much of Illinois under a slig

More than 360 Chicagoans, from toddlers in strollers to older adults, turned 103rd Street into a moving block party on Saturday during the inaugural 103rd Street 5K Peace Walk/Run. For three miles, a corridor better known for empty lots and boarded-up storefronts became a parade of possibility, with participants treati

Flames tore through a family-owned South Shore apartment building before dawn Sunday, sending two residents and a Chicago firefighter to the hospital after a fast-moving blaze near 67th Street and Crandon Avenue on May 17, 2026. Fire crews pulled a 16-year-old boy and a 53-year-old woman from a second-floor unit...

At least two people were shot Sunday on the city's West Side, Chicago police said.

CHICAGO - A 19-year-old man was injured in a shooting in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood on Sunday, according to police. Around 3:02 p.m., a 19-year-old man was inside a car when he was approached by three armed men who demanded his car in the 1300 block of S. Homan, police say.

Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been blasting out more national policy papers than any other potential 2028 presidential candidate. So far, polls show few voters care. Why it matters: Emanuel has gotten national coverage for his plans, has hit the podcast circuit, appears regularly on CNN and writes a column for

A video circulating online of a Chicago police officer wrestling with a man in the Loop has picked up a tidy narrative along with it: the man thought the officer was a security guard, swiped his phone, and found out the hard way he had picked the wrong target. It’s...