Anita Alvarez

Updated story While it's too late to make the pathway any clearer for police oversight during Chicago's NATO Summit, a proposal that would amend th...

A federal court ruled Tuesday that Illinois' controversial eavesdropping law "likely violates" the first amendment, and called for the state to stop p...

According to Human Rights Watch, the arrest rate for sexual assault in Illinois is only 11 percent. There's good news to report on the law enforcement front.

in 2009, Chris Drew set out to break a municipal ordinance to make a point: Chicago was unfairly restricting the sale of artwork. He would end up challenging a different law -- one that threatened to land him behind bars for 15 years.

While protesting a law than banned Chicago artists from selling their work on the street, artist Christopher Drew decided to try an act of civil disob...

A troubling case provides a test of Ms. Alvarez's commitment to right wrongful convictions. It turns on an issue that cuts to the core of the criminal justice system: The procurement of false testimony by a jailhouse snitch.

A Chicago man has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Chicago and three of its police officers over an August 2011 incident where police ...

On Thursday, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that Stanley Wrice, an Illinois inmate who claims that officers beat him with a flashlight and rubber ho...

Charges were filed Wednesday against the owner of a vacant building that collapsed one year ago and killed two Chicago firefighters. Chuck Dai, of ...

Wrongful convictions occur because prosecutors forget that their mandate "in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done," as the United States Supreme Court has decided.

A new analysis of how allegations of sexual assault are prosecuted at Chicago area colleges and universities shows that only a handful of convictions ...

False confessions happen all the time. They are particularly common in cases involving juveniles. What is distinctive about the Englewood Four case, and deeply troubling, is that State's Attorney Alvarez will not acknowledge the mistake.

A Chicago man has been found guilty and sentenced Friday to 125 years in prison in the 2009 murder of police officer Alejandro "Alex" Valadez. Shaw...

Even if Perry intervenes simply to prevent Hank Skinner's death from becoming a campaign issue, the most he can do under Texas law at this point is grant a 30-day reprieve.

A Cook County sheriff's correctional officer has been charged with sexual assault of his 10-year-old step daughter based on DNA results from a rape ki...

A man who allegedly killed a plainclothes Chicago Police Officer in the early morning hours of a summer's day in 2009 was reportedly drinking tequila ...

On Tuesday, a judge indicated that the American Civil Liberties Union's challenge of the harsh Illinois eavesdropping law banning the audio recording ...

A Cook County judge ruled Wednesday that Northwestern University must turn over some 500 e-mails that student journalists at the school exchanged with...

Eight men and one woman were charged with involuntary sexual servitude of a minor and human trafficking Wednesday following an 18-month undercover inv...

A woman who secretly recorded a conversation with two Chicago Police investigators while filing a sexual harassment complaint last August was acquitte...

While a "very promising" lead has developed in the ongoing investigation into last year's killing of Chicago Police Officer Michael Bailey, no charges...

A top aide to Cook County Board President Todd Stroger was arrested in October for directing county contracts to her businesses and those of her frien...

As I've mulled over the prospect, I've concluded that there's just no reason to think that a woman can't replace Mayor Daley. A woman could. Here is my take on how it could happen.

Two people were arrested this weekend after allegedly prostituting a 15-year-old mentally disabled girl on the West Side. Around midnight on Frida...