Former “Empire” star Jussie Smollett has been indicted by a grand jury once again, the special prosecutor appointed to investigate his case announced Tuesday. Special Prosecutor Dan Webb said in a statement that a Cook County grand jury returned a six-count indictment charging Smollett with “making four separate false reports to Chicago Police Department officers related to his false claims…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a 14-day mandatory quarantine order Friday for the roughly 200 passengers who were flown to March Air Reserve Base from Wuhan, China, where the deadly coronavirus was first detected. The group of 195 passengers, who arrived on a U.S. State Department-chartered airplane on Wednesday, had been staying at the military base under…

R. Kelly’s trial in Cook County in September will begin with charges alleging he sexually abused his hair dresser, prosecutors revealed in court Wednesday. Kelly did not appear at the hearing due to a “medical procedure,” his attorney Steve Greenberg said. A Cook County judge ordered the singer to stand trial on one of four sexual abuse cases on...

Chicago police say two girlfriends of R. Kelly fought Wednesday inside the embattled singer’s Trump Tower condominium , resulting in one of the women being taken to a nearby hospital.

Authorities didn’t identify the women, however police called to the condo said a 22-year-old female and a 24-year-old were engaged in a physical altercation when they arrived.

On its seventh day, the Illinois recreational cannabis industry was marked with short supplies, long lines, and in some cases, shuttered dispensaries Tuesday.

An 18-year-old Chicago man accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend while she visited from college allegedly did so while engaging in a version of Russian roulette with what he believed was an unloaded gun, prosecutors said. Lafayette Hodges was held on $50,000 bond Monday on a felony count of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of 19-year-old Lyniah Bell, a…

Footage shows several people, including children, jumping out a third-story apartment window to be rescued as a fire tore through a Chicago apartment building.

For decades, Greg Zanis has
been traveling across the U.S. to place crosses at some of the most
heartbreaking scenes the nation has faced. But 27,000 crosses later, the Aurora, Illinois native has given up the job that gave him a grim but powerful purpose for so many years.

A father and daughter from west suburban Aurora, outside of Chicago, and an 85-year-old relative were recently ambushed at a rest stop in Mexico while traveling to visit family for Christmas, family members said.

A 16-year-old girl brazenly fought off a carjacking suspect who stole the vehicle she and her two younger siblings were in in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood. Imama Muratab’s father left the teen, along with her 9-year-old brother and 4-year-old sister, inside their Toyota Highlander around 11 p.m. Sunday while he ran into a restaurant in the 3100 block...

Singer R. Kelly pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he schemed with others to pay for a fake ID for an unnamed female a day before he married R&B singer Aaliyah, then 15 years old, in a secret ceremony in 1994. Kelly entered the plea in New York via a video feed from Chicago, where he remains jailed while facing…

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx personally presented the first 1,012 cases to the chief judge Wednesday.

Police and federal agents had been waiting for Juice WRLD’s plane to land at Midway Airport even before the rapper suffered a fatal medical emergency, authorities said Monday. According to Chicago Police Spokesman Anthony Guglielmi, the rapper, whose real name is Jarad Higgins, and his entourage “were intercepted by the police department and FBI officials as they entered the lobby”...

Authorities say Chicago-area rapper Juice WRLD has been pronounced dead after a “medical emergency” at Midway International Airport. The Cook County medical examiner’s office says it was notified Sunday of the death 21-year-old Jarad A. Higgins. An autopsy hasn’t been performed. Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford says authorities transported a 21-year-old male from a small hangar at Midway to...

A Cook County judge on Wednesday ordered singer R. Kelly to stand trial on one of four sexual abuse cases on Sept. 14, but it remains unclear which of the cases prosecutors will take to trial first. During the hearing in Chicago, Judge Lawrence Flood told prosecutors he wants to know by Jan. 22 which of the four separate indictments…

Hours after Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired police superintendent Eddie Johnson for what she called “intolerable actions,” Charlie Beck, the interim superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, sent a letter to its members assuring them the department is “headed in the right direction.”  In her decision to fire Johnson, Lightfoot cited evidence she had reviewed from an ongoing investigation by...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot abruptly fired the city’s top cop Monday, terminating Supt. Eddie Johnson over allegations he “intentionally misled” both her and the public. Lightfoot said Johnson “engaged in a series of actions intolerable for any leader in a position of trust,” citing evidence she had reviewed from an ongoing investigation by the inspector general into an incident in...

Here’s what to wear in case you have to venture out in the extreme cold.

While most Americans will be grateful for second and third helpings this Thanksgiving, there’s one surprising group who struggle to find a first helping every day: students at some of the nation’s top universities, NBC News reports. “I can’t go to the grocery store to buy breakfast because if I use this money I’m not going to be able to...