The Chicago Police Department launched an internal investigation into the incident Thursday at the Leighton Criminal ...

Sheriff's deputies took the weapon, quickly identified the officer it belonged to — who was still in the courthouse — and ...

Four men were arrested after burglarizing freight containers on railroad property and attempting to flee in a getaway vehicle ...

A Cook County felon is back in custody and facing new charges after fleeing his home and tampering with his electronic ...

A Chicago police officer's gun was found unattended in a bathroom at the Cook County George N. Leighton Criminal Courthouse Thursday, officials said.

A Chicago police officer's gun was found unattended in a courthouse bathroom Thursday morning, prompting an internal investigation, authorities said.

A federal jury in Chicago on Monday awarded $120 million in damages to two wrongfully convicted men who spent more than 15 years in prison.

John Fulton and Anthony Mitchell, who were 17 and 18 years old when they were arrested in 2003, were each sentenced to 31 ...

John Fulton and Anthony Mitchell were teenagers when they were coerced into giving false confessions in a 2003 murder in ...

More than half of those charged in Cook County with felony firearm cases involving modified weapons have been detained ...