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A Chicago man has pleaded guilty to the murders of 15-year-old Ruby Navarrete and Lynner Hawkins.

(The Center Square) – Chicago finished fiscal year 2024 with a $41.1 billion gap between the money it has available to pay bills and the obligations it owes, according to a new report from Truth in Accounting, placing the city among the worst financially managed major cities in the nation. The nonprofit’s Financial...

A person was killed in a multi-vehicle rollover crash Wednesday evening on I-294 in the north suburbs, Illinois State Police said. Multiple lanes were closed.

After four decades at the corner of Cicero and 92nd Street, Jedi’s Garden Restaurant is closing its doors. Owner Tom Papadopoulos shared the news Wednesday on Facebook, calling it one of the hardest decisions of his life. “With a heavy heart, I want to share that after 40 years,...

A brazen daylight shooting in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood left a woman dead and a man wounded after three gunmen opened fire on their vehicle Wednesday afternoon, Chicago police said. The attack occurred around 1:25 p.m. in the 7900 block of South May Street when three gunmen dressed in black...

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(The Center Square) – A judge has ordered a former Cook County Sheriff’s office employee to pay more than $35,000 in restitution for forgery to obtain a Paycheck Protection Program loan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Kimberly Flowers-Watson, 59, of Chicago pleaded guilty to felony forgery and was sentenced to two...

A Dramatic Midnight Operation (Image Credits: Upload.wikimedia.org) Chicago's South Shore neighborhood – Federal agents stormed a dilapidated 130-unit apartment complex in the early hours of a September morning last year, detaining dozens amid dramatic claims of dismantling a notorious Venezuelan gang outpost.[1] A...

Chicago businessman Willie Wilson has donated $15,000 to inmates at Cook County Jail, in an effort to give them hope for the future.

A federal judge has shut down a whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former senior investigator at Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability, dealing a serious blow to claims that the agency’s former chief buried evidence and punished an internal critic. The ruling, issued last Thursday, tossed the...