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A man charged with murder of Jakub Marchewka in front of a liquor store on the Northwest Side on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021, was found not guilty this week due to self-defense, according to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. Everardo Olmos, age 29, was found not...

Three Chicago men are accused of robbing and beating a 56-year-old man who fell asleep on a Red Line train while heading to work in October, leaving him with a fractured eye socket. Artez Haywood, 20, Davarius Jordan, 19, and Raphael Foreman, 18, each face charges of robbery and aggravated...

Amazon (Seattle) is moving ahead with a second mega-store in suburban Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reports. News of this latest store, in Oak Brook, comes roughly a month after word got out about the online giant’s first such store, in Orland Park. (Those two towns are about 20 miles apart on Chicago’s west side.)

CHICAGO — The Chicago police officers who fatally shot a young Black man after a West Side traffic stop gone wrong in March 2024 have been mostly cleared of wrongdoing. Only one allegation for excessive force was marked “sustained” among 15 allegations against five officers involved in the high-profile killing of...

A man who carjacked and brutally beat a well-known Chinatown chef in 2022, leaving him with permanent injuries, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Termaine Patterson, 22, received the sentence from Judge Timothy Joyce for the April 7, 2022, attack on Jin Lew, who was then 61 years old.

CHICAGO - A death investigation has been launched after two people were found shot to death Wednesday night inside a residence on Chicago's Southwest Side. First responders found a 70-year-old man and a 43-year-old woman around 8 p.m. inside a home near 45th Street and Albany Avenue in the Brighton Park neighborhood,...

GARY, Indiana - An agreement still has not been reached nearly one week after the United Steelworkers union announced it was prepared for a strike or lockout at the BP Whiting, Indiana, refinery. The groups are expected to continue negotiations. The USW, on Feb. 6, reached an agreement with Marathon...

BERWYN, Ill. - The Berwyn Police Department is warning residents about a new scam using artificial intelligence to clone voices and impersonate loved ones or trusted officials. What we know:. Officials said scammers may call victims with voices that sound real, urging them to send money or share personal information.

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Vatican City – Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday blessed a damaged Virgin Mary statue found in a dumpster by a Michigan native and former Chicago radio host, formally approving the title “Our Lady of the Broken.”...

Chicago’s Board of Education has terminated its contract with the search firm hired to find the city’s next schools chief, as some members accuse Mayor Brandon Johnson of sabotaging the selection process. The board is no longer working with Alma Advisory Group, which was hired last May to...