Sitting just a few miles southwest of Chicago, suburban Orland Park was recently the site of a trio of drug arrests on some of the most serious charges a person can face in Illinois. According to a news report, three out-of-state men were arrested there and charged...
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Chicago tow truck driver faces felony charges
Truck drivers trying to navigate Chicago’s streets safely have to watch carefully to avoid cars and pedestrians, but also have to be aware of the overpasses as well. When the driver of a Freightliner box truck clipped a McKinley Park overpass earlier this year,...
New law could mean parole for young offenders with lengthy sentences
A significant change is coming to Illinois criminal justice on June 1. That’s when most young adults who were sentenced to lengthy prison terms will start to become eligible for a parole review after they have spent 10 years behind bars.Gov. J.B. Pritzker...
A look at an allegation of attempted sexual assault
It is easy to make a common mistake: People read a news story about someone being arrested and immediately assume that the suspect is guilty.We read recently in the Chicago Sun-Times of a man who has been arrested on a charge of attempted sexual assault. The...
Suburban Chicago contractor accused of fraud, theft felonies
One of the most prominent Chicago suburbs, Joliet sits southwest of the city. Law enforcement officials there recently arrested a 39-year-old contractor and charged him 12 felonies, including home repair fraud and theft.Police accuse the man of bilking a pair of...
Former Chicago Public Schools worker arrested for computer crimes
The city’s struggling public school system recently received more bad news when it was revealed that a former Chicago Public Schools employee has been accused of stealing personal information on its 80,000 workers, volunteers and vendors. The former CPS...
Former North Chicago police chief facing corruption trial
North Chicago is best known as home to the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, but the Lake County suburb has recently made headlines as its former police chief readies for trial on charges that he stole more than $200,000 in city funds for his personal use.Former...
East Chicago bookkeeper facing fraud, theft charges
East Chicago’s name is at odds with its location. If you travel east of the city, you wind up in Lake Michigan. But if you go south of the city and then slightly east, you’ll find yourself in East Chicago.The modest city of about 30,000 is home to a pair...
Chicago-area Boy Scouts official arrested on white collar charges
The Boy Scouts’ motto is “be prepared.” It is not clear if a former top Scouts official with the Northeast Illinois Council was prepared to be indicted on white collar charges. He faces allegations of wire fraud and forgery, law enforcement officials said. According...
Task force aims to cut Illinois female prison population in half
They are mothers, sisters, daughters, wives and girlfriends. Many of them are from Chicago, but all of them are locked up in Illinois prisons. They spend time in the state’s correctional system on a wide variety of charges that include drug trafficking and...