Jury takes just hours to convict man of killing Chicago Police Officer Ella French
The case against Emonte Morgan, 23, included often graphic video from cameras worn by French and Officer Carlos Yanez during a traffic stop in 2021.
The case against Emonte Morgan, 23, included often graphic video from cameras worn by French and Officer Carlos Yanez during a traffic stop in 2021.
Eileen O’Neill Burke, who faces Clayton Harris III in the Cook County Democratic primary, has received hundreds of thousands from conservatives.
A clerk’s office spokesman called the exposure “brief, non-damaging and limited in nature.” But a top county official says it was only the office’s latest failure.
WBEZ required a “yes” or “no” from Eileen O’Neill Burke and Clayton Harris III on topics ranging from gun possession to prosecutor unionization.
Harris insists he doesn’t have to choose — and neither do voters — between outgoing leader Kim Foxx’s progressive policies and a safer county.
The former judge says her decadeslong track record makes her fit for the role. Her critics call it her Achilles’ heel.
A new law allowed gun owners to keep assault weapons if they disclosed them. Illinois county registration rates ranged from 0.5% to 1.8%.
Gov. JB Pritzker commuted Johnny Pippins’s sentence. Now he’s adjusting to campus life in Iowa — and educating his classmates in the process.
Lawsuit challenges state law passed after 2022 Highland Park Fourth of July shooting that left 7 dead and nearly 50 wounded.
Supt. Larry Snelling acknowledged his “miscommunication” in claiming the department had solved three-quarters of murders in January, when in actuality police have only cleared a small fraction of cases.