4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (706+ words) For four days, a Chicago man emailed the city’s Office of Inspector General warning that he planned to kill his neighbor. On the fifth day, according to prosecutors, he did. And, incredibly, it happened almost a year after Chicago police…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (504+ words) A Chicago man who was wearing an ankle monitor for a pending sexual assault case when his 13-year-old nephew accidentally shot himself to death while handling a gun in his home has been given a 10-year sentence, court records show....

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (221+ words) A Chicago man has pleaded guilty to attempted murder for chasing down and shooting another man during a dispute outside a Chinatown nightclub last year. Terris Williams, 32, was given an eight-year sentence after entering the plea before Judge Steven Watkins,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (315+ words) We don’t want to tell anyone to limit themselves, but if you’re a 60-year-old, 15-time convicted felon, maybe robbing a house full of construction workers half your age isn’t the best career move. But William Garrett didn’t ask for our…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (405+ words) A GoFundMe campaign launched for a Lakeview man who was shot and critically injured inside his apartment building last week had raised over $40,000 within its first 20 hours, as friends and supporters rallied around his recovery. Gavin French, 33, known online as…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (285+ words) A judge this week sentenced a man to 40 years in prison for murdering a beloved Hyde Park bartender while he had three felony cases pending in juvenile court, two involving illegal gun possession and one involving armed carjacking. But Keante…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (620+ words) A man accused of trying to ignite a Molotov cocktail at a CTA bus stop has been missing for weeks after a Cook County judge denied prosecutors’ request to keep him in jail, court records show. Three other judges have…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (402+ words) Mustapha Fisuru, 24, and Tiekoro Diawara, 25, are each charged with manufacture-delivery of a controlled substance and controlled substance trafficking. Judge James Costello denied the state’s request to detain both men. According to the state’s detention filing, Fisuru and Diawara arrived at…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (385+ words) CWB Chicago A Joliet man previously convicted of killing another man in 2018 faces federal charges after the ATF said he sold a firearm and approximately 1,000 fentanyl pills to undercover agents in separate transactions. Martell “Haitian” Ollie was taken into custody…...