The dismissal of a lawsuit brought against a Barrington Hills mother by her two grown children who accused her of “bad mothering” was unanimously ...

A Chicago lawyer is being accused of sexism after requesting that a "large breasted woman" seated at the opposing counsel's table be moved as to not d...

James Roesch was briefly able to elude Cook County sheriff's deputies Tuesday morning, in an escape made all the more daring by his hobbling around on...

What does the Chicago court ruling against Rahm Emanuel say to others who are asked to leave the comfort, security and spoils of hometown politics to serve their country and president?

CHICAGO — Testifying for the first time in a case for custody of his children, Dwyane Wade denied on Friday a slew of allegations made by ex-wif...

CHICAGO — Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for two men accused of killing seven people in a suburban Chicago apartment house they alle...

When Derrick Reed was born, he was fragile and addicted to crack. With his drug addicted mother and drug-selling father out of the picture, he was rai...

CHICAGO — A judge in Chicago has handed down a 180-year prison sentence for a man convicted of killing the brother of NBA player Quentin Richard...

An attorney, believed to be a Cook County prosecutor, was hospitalized this morning after another attorney choked him on the first floor of the Cook C...

On Saturday, 17-year-old Ravontay Hutchins allegedly stole a pizza delivery driver's car outside of a restaurant in Little Italy. The teen was caught ...

The estranged wife of NBA star Dwyane Wade turned herself in to authorities today, a day after a Cook County judge issued a warrant for her arrest for...

MIAMI — Adding to an already contentious divorce battle, Dwyane Wade's estranged wife has filed a lawsuit, claiming his relationship with actres...

CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors' latest portrait of Rod Blagojevich in his final days as Illinois governor reveal a man fed up with his $177,000-a...

A high-profile divorce case was resolved by a Cook County judge Tuesday, as a man who claims he returned to his Catholic roots after divorcing a Jewis...

MIAMI — Dwyane Wade now has temporary custody of his two sons, the second significant legal development of the week for the Miami Heat star. Wa...

A Cook County judge tossed out a lawsuit Monday that aimed to block the state's never-enforced law that would require a young woman to notify her pare...

A Hyatt Hotel employee clobbered a CTA bus driver in the head with a hammer because he was refused a student fare, Cook County prosecutors said today....

CHICAGO — The wife of Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade surrendered to authorities in Chicago on Monday and was released an hour later after posting a...

TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau, known as the infomercial king and best-selling author, was ordered by a federal judge to serve 30 days in prison and must t...

Joseph Reyes, who baptized his 3-year-old daughter without his ex-wife's permission, could see jail time after a Cook County judge granted his ex a te...

CHICAGO — A Chicago man who says he got sick after eating salami linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak has filed a lawsuit against a meat c...

A Cook County woman filed a lawsuit Friday seeking $50,000 from her husband, who she claims gave her herpes. The unnamed plaintiff claims that she ...

In their own ways, they have risen to stardom on a stage built from misery, two battlers who grapple with questions of life-and-death justice: Anita A...

As the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan drag on the number of war vets increases, and some of them are ending up in the Cook County criminal justice ...