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The driver said a passenger performed a sex act in her backseat.
Eduardo Fajardo Jr. allegedly fled after his pickup killed 19-year-old Adrian Rogel-Villanueva, who lay in a field for hours before he was found.
A Cook County judge sided with Guaranteed Dispensary near Northwestern Memorial, rejecting claims tied to a zoning board member's son.
A Danville prisoner's federal suit over blocked videophones lands amid years of unmet accommodation promises across Illinois prisons.
Victims say the payouts, covering abuse dating to the early 1970s, bring some measure of justice decades later.
Chuck Wehrli helped recover a fallen FDNY firefighter and later developed Stage IV tongue cancer from Ground Zero dust.
Pierre French pleaded guilty to killing Dreanna Booker in front of a divorce that was one month from final.
A federal judge said Carl Fioravanti chased money even as workers breathed in cancer-causing dust at a Waukegan hospital demolition.
Nyota Figgs claims a failed romance with Mayor Thaddeus Jones led to years of harassment and a bogus lawsuit against her.
A silver SUV crashed into a parked vehicle after gunfire struck the driver early Friday on South Wood Street.
Forensic searchers found more than 70 files on Adam Bakker's desktop after a cloud-storage tip triggered a months-long probe.
A homeless 21-year-old woman escaped an alleged attacker after her boyfriend and another bystander intervened near the Lake County courthouse.
Ballistic evidence from a second shooting helped Chicago police finally charge a 15-year-old in Eric Billops's death.
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