Former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge, recently diagnosed with prostate cancer, has won a third delay of his trial, over a prosecutor's objections....
Chicago Public Radio | Tony Arnold | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago
A Chicago man who spent 26 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit is now suing the city....
Chicago Public Radio | Rob Wildeboer | Posted 09.11.2009 | Chicago
Imprisoned men who say they were tortured by Former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge have a new venue to air their cases. ...
Chicago Sun-Times | RUMMANA HUSSAIN | Posted 08.07.2009 | Chicago
The Illinois Attorney General's Office today dropped charges against two men convicted of five murders two decades ago....
Windy Citizen | Len Kody | Posted 06.20.2009 | Chicago
Last week former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge was in the news again, narrowly avoiding testifying in the case of a convicted murderer who says B...
AP | Posted 06.18.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — An inmate seeking a new murder trial claims he was tortured so badly by Chicago police officers in the 1990s that he would have signed...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.30.2009 | Chicago
UPDATE 1:40 P.M. A judge granted permission, without any objection from prosecutors, to Cortez's lawyers to subpoena Jon Burge to testify in court, t...
Chicago Sun-Times | RUMMANA HUSSAIN | Posted 05.15.2009 | Chicago
Lawyers for a man who claims he was tortured and forced to confess to murder during Jon Burge's reign asked a Cook County judge today to subpoena and ...
AP | Posted 05.08.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- One public defender says he was surprised that a Cook County judge today ordered a special state's attorney to prosecute a batch of po...
Chicago Public Radio | Posted 05.08.2009 | Chicago
A Cook County judge today is expected to make a ruling on several cases related to police torture. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says the cas...
Associated Press | Posted 03.28.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is being threatened with political retribution if she insists on washing her hands of torture c...
Chicago Defender | Kathy Chaney | Posted 02.28.2009 | Chicago
Afraid their appeals will fall on deaf ears if Gov. Rod Blagojevich is ousted, several relatives of victims tortured by former Chicago police Commande...
Chicago Tribune | David Heinzmann and Steve Mills | Posted 01.05.2009 | Chicago
The union representing Chicago's police officers has decided to pay for the criminal defense of indicted former detective Cmdr. Jon Burge, who is faci...
Associated Press | Don Babwin | Posted 12.26.2008 | Chicago
A man whose death sentence was commuted to life in prison by former Illinois Gov. George Ryan has filed a petition to get his murder conviction overt...
Chicago Public Radio | Tasha Flournoy | Posted 11.30.2008 | Chicago
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is again facing renewed pressure to examine the cases of some alleged victims of police torture. This comes aft...
Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 11.28.2008 | Chicago
Everything on this week's episode will freak you out: From the Jon Burge Torture Timeline, to the Jennifer Hudson saga.
Tracy Siska | Posted 11.27.2008 | Chicago
For all the bellowing about the fact that more should have been done twenty years ago to stop Burge, nothing is being done to stop the illegal and abusive tactics of today.
Posted 11.27.2008 | Chicago
UPDATE Carol Marin reports that the Fraternal Order of Police is rumored to be paying for Burge's criminal defense. Burge lawyer Bill Gamboney said o...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.23.2008 | Chicago
Mayor Daley on Thursday issued a sarcastic blanket apology for the alleged torture of suspects by former Chicago Police Lt. Jon Burge. "The best way ...
Rob Warden | Posted 11.21.2008 | Chicago
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald finally has done what Richard M. Daley should have done 26 years ago: He has indicted retired Chicago Police Detective Jon Burge for leading a band of brutal white cops who tortured hundreds of African-American suspects in criminal cases.
AP | Mike Robinson | Posted 11.21.2008 | Chicago
Scroll down for video of Mayor Daley's response, the alleged victims speaking out, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald explaining the charges and more ba...
Chicago Sun-Times | NATASHA KORECKI | Posted 11.05.2009 | Chicago