Andy Grimm

The shooting Oct. 26 in the West Ridge neighborhood was a ‘planned attack' according to prosecutors. Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi was captured after he was wounded in a shootout with police.

Judge Thomas E. Nowinski isn't hearing domestic violence cases due to threats, Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans said Tuesday.

“The clerk's office is the front door to our justice system,” said Clerk of the Circuit Court Mariyana Spyropoulos. “I pledge to keep that door open for everyone, not just for those who know how to navigate the system.”

“You had ability and all of your dreams in one hand, and you yourself shattered all those dreams on your own,” Judge Laura Ayala-Gonzalez said Tuesday while handing down Drake's sentence.

Shane Colombo was shot and killed by a stray bullet in September 2018 as he prepared to study for a doctorate in the psychology of marginalized people. “My son took the bullet from perhaps the same [person] he was going to save,” his father said in court Tuesday.

Charges unsealed Wednesday allege McCormick Place operations manager Dominick Gironda, 54, and snow removal contractor James Sansone, 38, arranged for other contractors to overcharge for snow removal, with Gironda signing off on the bogus invoices and Sansone serving as an intermediary for kickbacks from the plowing companies.

Witnesses have recanted testimony in 49 cases involving CPD detective Reynaldo Guevara. None have been warned of perjury until this week, when new Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke took office.

One of Chicago’s most bizarre murder cases may return to a Cook County courtroom after the appeals court ruled Thursday that a judge erred by barring Wyndham Lathem from talking to his lawyers before he faced a brutal cross-examination by prosecutors.

Homicide Det. Marco Torres was sentenced to a year of probation for assault, but a protective order also will prevent him from having a license to carry a gun, a requirement for CPD officers. He's on unpaid leave from the department.

A judge ruled that brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo were not defamed by remarks that implied they were involved in 2019 hoax hate crime— in part because they repeatedly admitted they were paid to fake the attack