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.

Body camera footage shows Officer Michael Donnelly beating Lorenzo Williams while pointing a gun at his head in Cabrini-Green.

Jeffery Estep is jailed without bond after a 46-year-old man was found with severe head injuries on Maple Row.

Lushay Hobby lost a year of nursing school after two stray pit bulls latched onto her leg near 160th and Paulina.

A West Side block group founder says schoolchildren and taxpayers deserve better than the encampment stretching along 5th Avenue near the Eisenhower.