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“Empire” actor Jussie Smollett turns self in to face charge, police say

February 21, 2019 at 7:49 a.m.

"Empire" actor Jussie Smollett turned himself in early Thursday to face accusations that he filed a false police report when he told authorities he was attacked in Chicago by two...

“Empire” actor Jussie Smollett charged with making false police report

February 20, 2019 at 6:16 p.m.

If Smollett's account is determined to be a fabrication, legal experts say he could be charged with any number of felonies.

FILE – In a Monday, April 23, 2018 file photo, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan outlines a federal lawsuit her office filed against Champaign, Ill.-based Suburban Express Inc., and owner Dennis Toeppen accusing it of discriminating and harassing customers and their families, during a news conference in Chicago. Madigan on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018 issued a blistering report about clergy sexual abuse, saying that Catholic dioceses in Illinois received allegations of child sexual abuse by 500 more clergy than previously publicly identified.(Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)

Illinois finds 500 more Catholic clergy accused of abuse

December 19, 2018 at 5:23 p.m.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan on Wednesday issued a blistering report about clergy sexual abuse, saying that Catholic dioceses in Illinois received allegations of child sexual abuse by 500 more...

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Gunman opens fire at Chicago hospital, killing at least 3

November 19, 2018 at 8:03 p.m.

A gunman opened fire Monday at a Chicago hospital, killing a police officer and two hospital employees in an attack that began with a domestic dispute and exploded into a...

Slain Chicago police commander was department veteran

February 14, 2018 at 6:07 a.m.

The shooting death of a police commander near a state government office building gripped parts of downtown Chicago as emergency workers tried to save the department veteran at the scene...

Chicago sees drop in homicides, shootings in 2017

January 1, 2018 at 8:54 p.m.

Chicago ended 2017 with fewer homicides than the year before, but gang violence in the city's most dangerous neighborhoods kept the total number of killings above the 600 mark for...

Sexual misconduct often part of the job in hospitality work

December 10, 2017 at 8:49 p.m.

One woman recalls how a general manager at a Chicago-area restaurant where she worked told her that if security cameras recorded him reaching between her legs and grabbing her genitals,...

Former President Barack Obama arrives for ...

Barack Obama shows up in Chicago for jury duty; not chosen

November 8, 2017 at 11:40 p.m.

Former President Barack Obama, free of a job that forced him to move to Washington for eight years, showed up to a downtown Chicago courthouse for jury duty on Wednesday...

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks regarding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on Tuesday at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C.

Judge: Sessions can’t deny grant money for sanctuary cities

September 15, 2017 at 3:37 p.m.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions can't follow through -- at least for now — with his threat to withhold public safety grant money to Chicago and other so-called sanctuary cities for...

Chicago stabbing death suspects surrender in California

August 5, 2017 at 3:03 p.m.

A Northwestern University professor and a University of Oxford staffer accused of stabbing a man to death in Chicago surrendered peacefully to authorities in California, eight days after the brutal...

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