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Jeremy Batterman allegedly used AI to alter real children's photos and create synthetic abuse videos. He's due in court Thursday.
A statute-of-limitations snag saved Officer Charles Harris II from firing over a 2020 Englewood shooting that wounded two men.
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CTU says a cookbook-themed social post and a years-long messaging push crossed the line into defamation. It wants a jury to decide.
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Riverbank replaces the shuttered White Eagle banquet hall in Niles, with the first units set for drywall by late August.
Cheryl Moore was acquitted of battery and child endangerment tied to a Meadowview Intermediate classroom incident that sparked parent protests last year.
The Buffalo, known for its matzo ball soup, is being demolished for a speculative retail building as part of the overhaul.
The victim yelled and tried to hold the bathroom door shut as the masked man searched the master bedroom before fleeing.
Keyon Hayes was under 24/7 curfew when he shot Michael Corbitt in Austin — the monitor never flagged that he'd left home.
Josiah Crout and Shawn Bowman Williams allegedly hit a Jimmy John's and tried Cafecito while both were already free on bond for another Loop burglary.
Two people trapped in a rolled-over vehicle were pulled free by EMS crews near Plymouth. Lutheran Air had to fly one driver to the hospital.
Investigators say alleged threats preceded the pre-dawn fires at the dual-purpose Aberdeen Street venue in West Loop.
A white Jeep repeatedly slammed into an East 87th Street business before four people fled in a getaway SUV, leaving the crash vehicle behind.
A 29-year-old man died at Advocate Christ Medical Center after a street fight turned into a shooting Sunday night in Chicago Lawn.
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