Exclusive: Most sex offenders in nursing homes aren't registered (Chicago Tribune)
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:39:02 GMT
Under Illinois law, families researching nursing homes are directed to search a state police Web site for critical information about sex offenders living in the facilities. But only 59 of the 192 sex offenders in Illinois nursing homes -- or less than one in three -- were listed on that online state registry, a Tribune investigation found. The shortfall is especially acute in Chicago ...
Man dies after being shot by police on North Side (Chicago Tribune)
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:08:52 GMT
A man died after being shot by Chicago police on Thursday night in the city's Ravenswood neighborhood. According to the Cook County medical examiner's office the man was in his 30s and he was pronounced dead at 10:06 p.m. at Illinois Masonic Hospital. The man's identity was unavailable, according to a spokesman. No officers were injured in the shooting around 9:30 p.m. in the 5100 block of North ...
New trial ordered for man in 1992 Lakeview slaying (Chicago Tribune)
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:24:12 GMT
The Illinois Supreme Court ordered a new trial for Salvador Ortiz for a 1992 gang-related Lakeview slaying that drew attention after Ortiz's mother, who became a community activist and advocate for her son's case, died in police custody in 2004 after being arrested on drug charges. The mother, May Molina, whose children filed a wrongful-death lawsuit that is still pending in federal court, had ...
Prosecutors: Man had about $600,000 in heroin (Chicago Tribune)
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:09:43 GMT
A Minnesota man was ordered held in lieu of $250,000 Wednesday after more than a half a million dollars in heroin was found in the back of his sport-utility vehicle, after it crashed into a garage on Chicago 's North Side , authorities said this afternoon. Abel Zor, 37, of Brooklyn Park, Minn., appeared for his bond hearing Wednesday before Cook County Criminal Court Judge Laura Sullivan ...
Cops seize more than $2.6 million in marijuana (Chicago Tribune)
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:53:52 GMT
Authorities seized more than $2.6 million worth of marijuana that was being transported from Texas to Chicago 's Southwest Side . On Tuesday, members of the Chicago Police Department's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas-Package Interdiction Team, working with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and Illinois State Police, learned of suspicious freight arriving to the Southwest Side , then ...
Two captured, one sought in Northwest Side shooting (Chicago Sun-Times)
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:09:59 GMT
Chicago Police took two people into custody, and a searching for a possible third suspect, in connection with an early Thursday shooting in the Northwest Side's Hermosa neighborhood that left a woman critically injured. The 26-year-old woman was inside a vehicle when she was shot in the back about 12:45 a.m. in the 4400 block of West Belden Avenue, police said. The woman was taken in critical ...
Charles Shaw: Empty Prison in Struggling Illinois Town Might Be Next Gitmo (The Huffington Post)
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:24:57 GMT
Beyond histrionics about a wave of jihad descending upon Chicago, the truth of the matter is far closer to the desire of Republicans to keep the extralegal limbo at Guantanamo going full steam.
Illinois teen charged with carjacking (Post-Tribune)
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:22:05 GMT
A Dolton, Ill., teen has been charged in Lake Superior Court with carjacking and robbery in the theft of a car left running in East Chicago. Zolule D. Allison, 16, was captured after a witness got into his car and followed his friend's Chevrolet Impala, which had been left running while the owner and the witness were outside at 3 a.m. Sunday at 150th and Northcote. The witnesses told police ...
Suspect Wanted For Clarksville Murder Found In Chicago (News Channel 5 Nashville)
Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:51:32 GMT
A Clarksville man wanted on homicide charges has been arrested in Chicago.
State representative from Chicago robbed at gunpoint (The State Journal-Register)
Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:39:23 GMT
CHICAGO Authorities say Illinois State Rep. Annazette Collins was robbed at gunpoint while she and her sister were in front of their mothers home on Chicagos South Side.