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CHICAGO — Allegations of police misconduct against a former Chicago Police Department detective will cost the Windy City more than $260 million. The mass legal settlement, approved by the Chicago City Council this week, resolves 16 cases brought forward by 17 people who claimed former Detective Reynaldo Guevara had framed them for murder during the 1980s and 1990s. When added together, these plaintiffs spent nearly 400 years in custody, all for convictions that were later vacated.

CHICAGO — A 20-year-old woman was charged following a 2024 hit-and-run in West Ridge that killed a 67-year-old man. Joscelyn Mercado, 20, of Streamwood, is facing charges of aggravated DUI resulting in death and leaving the scene of an accident. She was taken into custody Wednesday in the 0-100 block of East Pine Street in […]

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been spotted in Forest Park, as recently as Oct. 13 — Forest Park resident Betty Alzamora said at a village council meeting held that evening. “As early as this morning, we had confirmed presence of ICE in Forest Park,” Alzamora said during...

SKOKIE, Ill. - A Skokie man is facing felony charges after police said he attacked a senior citizen and held her head underwater in a pond at Old Orchard shopping mall. Skokie police responded shortly after 11 a.m. Tuesday to reports of a man holding a woman’s head underwater in a pond at 4905 Old Orchard Center.

Rush University System for Health and Endeavor Health announced Wednesday plans to merge.

BEDFORD PARK, Ill. — The FBI is looking for two men who robbed an ATM technician and took the money in Bedford Park. On Tuesday just after 4:45 p.m., authorities responded to a Huntington Bank branch, located at 7400 S. Cicero in Bedford Park, on the report of a robbery. According to the FBI, two […]

A 79-year-old man was charged with felony offenses, including attempted murder, after allegedly stabbing a disabled resident and a nurse at an assisted living facility in Park Ridge.

(The Center Square) – The architect of megaprojects legislation in the Illinois House says the Chicago Bears can pick what they want in new stadium legislation, but taxpayer protection has to be at the center of the conversation. State Rep. Kam Buckner, D-Chicago, joined Gov. J.B. Pritzker and other legislative leaders in a meeting with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell last month. Buckner said after an Illinois House Executive Committee hearing in Chicago on Tuesday that it’s not really important

Tragically, the driver of a Audi sedan fatally struck bicycle rider Matthew McCallum, 52, last Saturday evening as he crossed Harts Road in Niles while riding on the North Branch Trail. It was the second time a street crossing death had occurred on the popular cycling route since July 2024.

CHICAGO (WGN) — This week, Chicago City Council could approve the largest wrongful conviction settlement in the country. The $261 million mass settlement could resolve the lawsuits of 16 people whose murder convictions have been vacated. But the case of Francisco Nanez has led some aldermen to question how...