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Foxx, who chose not to seek a third term as Cook County's top prosecutor, said her office worked “tirelessly to enhance the scales of justice and equality.” Her replacement, Eileen O’Neill Burke, was sworn in Monday.

Jack Riley, 66, ended his Drug Enforcement Administration career in 2017 when he retired in Washington as deputy administrator, the No. 2 job. In Chicago, he led an investigation of

More than 1,500 people are in the program, including more than 100 facing charges of murder or attempted murder. Dart says he thinks the program should be for people charged with lower-level crimes. He's negotiating with Chief Judge Timothy Evans to handle all of the county's electronic monitoring…

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says he’s phasing out his electronic monitoring program for people awaiting trial because he can’t run it safely anymore. Dart says he plans to stop accepting new deta...

Black men born from 1951 through 1970 have the greatest risk of dying of overdoses and always have, even in their 20s, 30s and 40s. That’s true in Chicago, in Baltimore, Washington and some other big cities, an investigation by the Sun-Times, The New York Times, The Baltimore Banner, Big Local News…

Romeo Blackman is scheduled to have a sentencing hearing Friday. His defense lawyers say he was only 18 when he allegedly committed some of the killings he's been convicted of, making a life sentence unconstitutional.

Maxson, 63, was freed in 2016 after another man confessed to the grisly stabbing death of a 6-year-old boy and DNA evidence tied that man to the crime.

Hytera could pay a fine of up to $60 million at sentencing in November. The Shenzhen, China-based company was previously ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages in a lawsuit Motorola filed for stealing trade secrets.

Inspector General Deborah Witzburg's office pushed CFD to fire three people involved in the cover-up and place them on the city's do-not-hire list, but the department imposed far lighter discipline. The assistant deputy chief paramedic who was found asleep at the wheel retired amid the probe.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration warns that “virtual currency continues to be a popular and growing method used to launder illicit proceeds derived from drug sales.”