CHICAGO (WGN) — Former Chicago alderman Ed Burke was released from prison Tuesday after serving less than 10 months of his two-year sentence for public corruption. The Federal Bureau of Prisons ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 15, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Cook County Hospital with a vacant lot ...

A Sun-Times investigation found the state's new prison health care provider comes with a disturbing track record.

A Chicago man who spent 29 years in prison for a crime he did not commit is now suing the police officers who put him there. Jerry Herrington's murder conviction was vacated in March. The lawsuit said ...

CHICAGO — A day after President Donald Trump’s stunning decision to commute the federal life sentence of Larry Hoover, lawyers for the Chicago-born Gangster Disciples founder were singing the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago man was released from prison more than 30 years after he was wrongfully convicted of murder. Hilton Keller had been in prison for the armed robbery and murder of music and ...

Meet a previously incarcerated mother who works with young people to prevent gun violence in Chicago, one of several American cities where the homicide rate has significantly dropped in recent years.

The family of a Chicago woman serving a life sentence in a women's prison in China is pushing to bring her home. "I will get my daughter back. … She will return to me," retired Chicago Police Sgt.

Officer Andres Vasquez Lasso was shot to death March 1, 2023, during a foot pursuit in Gage Park. Because Steven Montano was ...