18 August 2008, 10:10 pm
Local law enforcement agencies insisted Monday that crowd control at the Illinois State Fair was better this year despite the fair ending Sunday night with a rash of fighting outside Gate 2 at Sangamon Avenue and Peoria Road.... read more
18 August 2008, 8:36 pm
Charges have been filed against a man in last week's slayings of an off-duty Chicago Police officer and a DCFS social worker shot to death inside an SUV on the West Side. ... read more
18 August 2008, 12:23 pm
A man wanted for a 1999 murder outside a Near West Side bar has been returned to Chicago from Mexico, where he was arrested earlier this year. Gilberto Rios, 34, whose last known address was 2301 S. Trumbull Ave. in Chicago, was arrested earlier this year, without incident, by Mexican Federal ... read more
18 August 2008, 11:06 am
Fatally shot, Chicago Police Detective Robert Soto was able to steer police on path to an arrest in double murder As he sat dying in the driver's seat of his SUV, Chicago Police Detective Robert Soto dialed 911 on his cell phone and told police he had been shot.... read more
18 August 2008, 10:07 am
Steven Mackovich maintained his claims of innocence while he served more than five years of a life sentence. But it was an admission of guilt that eventually set him free. Mackovich killed Charles Johnson in April 1980 by stabbing him 41 times in the neck and chest, as far as the state and his crimi... read more
18 August 2008, 6:48 am
BELLEVILLE -- Police Sgt. Jon J. Brough will be awarded the 2008 Law Enforcement Award presented by the Illinois State Bar Association tonight at the Belleville City Council chambers.... read more
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