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‘O Dog’— reputed head of Goonie Boss gang — charged in seven killings
About four years ago, cops in the Englewood District were concerned that Romeo Blackman and his brother had targets on their backs. Police were hearing rival gangs blamed the brothers for shootings on...
View ArticleEdwin Eisendrath resigns as Sun-Times Media CEO
Edwin Eisendrath, the former alderman who partnered with labor unions and others to buy the Chicago Sun-Times last year, has resigned as CEO of Sun-Times Media. Eisendrath expanded the paper’s digital...
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Felon charged with killing girlfriend with gun he allegedly got from legal buyer
A convicted felon from the south suburbs was charged Wednesday with killing his girlfriend with a gun he’s suspected of getting from a man who bought it legally, police and prosecutors said. Arthur...
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Marijuana use, rap sheets mean more wannabe Chicago cops get rejected on appeal
Rejected applicants to become Chicago cops are having a harder time winning appeals to be placed on the police eligibility list than in the past, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis has found. The city’s...
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Federal gun cases in Chicago, once lagging, hit a 10-year high
U.S. Attorney John Lausch started on the job a year ago knowing he faced a problem that vexed his predecessor: what to do to help slow the bloodshed in Chicago. President Donald Trump, who appointed...
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Federal gun prosecutions up in Chicago, fewer illegal immigration, fraud cases
It’s one of the rare things on which Mayor Rahm Emanuel and President Donald Trump agree: the need for more federal gun prosecutions in Chicago. In 2014, Chicago’s Democratic mayor declared that...
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Chicago cop among 3 killed by gunman at Mercy Hospital: ‘This tears at the soul’
A Chicago Police officer, a doctor and a pharmacy technician were among the three people shot to death at Mercy Hospital in Bronzeville Monday afternoon. The suspected gunman was also killed, though it...
View ArticleHospital shooter’s history of past threats no legal hurdle to owning gun
Before he gunned down a Chicago police officer, a doctor and a pharmacy resident at Mercy Hospital, Juan Lopez made threats, harassed his estranged wife and slept with a gun under his pillow, court...
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Slain Mercy Hospital doctor called 911 before ex-fiance killed her
Before she was fatally shot in a parking lot outside Mercy Hospital, Dr. Tamara O’Neal had time to call 911 and report that her ex-fiance was there with a gun. A friend witnessed the altercation,...
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Officer Jimenez was on routine mail run when he rushed to Mercy Hospital
Chicago Police Officer Samuel Jimenez was in a squad car on a mundane assignment to deliver mail on Monday afternoon when he saw that fellow cops were speeding toward Mercy Hospital. Jimenez, an...
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Ex-Harvey schools chief wins $400,000 over ‘ass-kicking’ comment by board member
A former schools superintendent who claimed a Harvey Elementary School District 152 board member threatened her by saying she was “itching for an ass kicking” has been awarded $400,000 in a retaliation...
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Officers hit by train caught unaware when sound of one train ‘drowned out’ other
Two Chicago Police officers were apparently caught unaware when they were fatally hit by a train Monday night because another passing train “drowned out” the sound of it, authorities said Tuesday....
View ArticleRail agencies: We were never asked to halt, slow trains prior to deadly incident
When Chicago police officers are on Metra’s right-of-way, whether responding to a call about a suicidal subject or an accident or pursuing criminal suspects, there’s a practice that’s generally...
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Ex-prosecutor glad Pedro Flores ‘lived to see the day’ to testify against Chapo
Former Chicago prosecutor Thomas Shakeshaft met secretly with Pedro Flores a decade ago in Mexico when the U.S. government was exploring whether the drug trafficker and his twin brother would cooperate...
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Man charged with firing gun on tracks where two CPD officers were killed
A 24-year-old man was charged Wednesday with firing a gun near railroad tracks on the Far South Side where two Chicago police officers investigating the shots were struck and killed by a commuter...
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Landmark discrimination suit against CHA coming to a close after half-century
In 1966, Dorothy Gautreaux was a fiery community organizer who lived in the Altgeld-Murray public-housing complex on the South Side. With help from the American Civil Liberties Union, she became the...
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Hope. Perseverance. Support. Luck. Kiwand Brown is going to need all of those.
Kiwand Brown doesn’t have a brother. But while he was locked up in the Cook County Jail for one of the dumbest things he’s ever done, he met a man who one day would be like one to him. That day,...
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Food-truck gun deal leads to Chicago drug case and witness threats, feds say
Sandwiches weren’t the only things being sold out of Chicago’s Finest Deli on Wheels, the feds say. In 2015, an undercover federal agent bought 24 stolen guns stashed in the food truck, according to...
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Black Lives Matter marchers blast Van Dyke sentence
Hundreds of hardy protesters marched on a chilly Monday afternoon on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive to protest the 81-month sentence that former Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke got last week for...
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Downstate auctioneer sues to recover unique deathbed photo of Abe Lincoln
It’s the case of the missing Lincoln death photo. The strange case involves a Downstate auctioneer, his ex-wife, a dentist, a distant relative of Lincoln — and even former Illinois Gov. James “Big Jim”...
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