Chicago police officers perpetrated a “wide-ranging scheme to manufacture evidence,” a federal lawsuit alleges, in order to convict three people in the 2011 slaying of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis, whose controversial murder case has been beset with allegations of […]
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An Illinois appeals court decision that overturned the convictions for a man accused of fatally shooting 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton in 2013 will stand, after the state’s highest court found that its justices were divided on the matter and dismissed the
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A former city employee and ward boss for Ald. Jim Gardiner pleaded guilty on Thursday to a gun charge after prosecutors said he tried to sell an antique machine gun to an undercover ATF agent while he was on the
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A Cook County jury on Tuesday found a man guilty of murder in the shooting death of an off-duty Chicago police officer in River North in 2019, according to court records. Menelik Jackson, 29, was convicted of murder and aggravated
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