Jussie Smollett will learn his fate after his staged attack conviction
The questions swirling around the actor now boil down to two: Will he admit he lied to police and will he be sent to prison?
The questions swirling around the actor now boil down to two: Will he admit he lied to police and will he be sent to prison?
The Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act, which would make lynching a federal hate crime, is more than 100 years in the making.
If the inmates at a Chicago-area jail graduate from the program, they get help searching for work and relocating away from their gangs.
Maria Soila Vega’s son Christopher Torrijos was murdered on Sept. 16, 2021. It’s one of hundreds of Chicago murders without an arrest.
In 2019, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability recommended three dismissals. Last year it recommended 59.
Outside firms have charged more than $330,000 to help officials deal with the scandal at the public beaches and pools, records show.
Eric Rinehart, the state’s attorney of Lake County, Ill., said officers misled a 15-year-old to extract a confession last week.
Eddie Johnson’s comments under oath support Officer Cynthia Donald’s allegations that her work reassignment stemmed from sexual harassment.
The federal lawsuit claims Irene Chavez died by suicide as a result of the police department’s pattern of mistreating people in crisis.
The proposal has been criticized since Mayor Lightfoot introduced it last year. A city council committee gave it the go-ahead Thursday.