A petition has been filed with the court calling for a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate and prosecute the Chicago police shooting of Laquan McDonald. The current Cook County State’s Attorney waited over a year to formally charge the police officer accused in the fatal shooting. This delay has been brought under severe...
Read MoreA DuPage County judge sentenced a woman to eight years in prison and repayment of the $1,029,000 she stole from a Naperville Law Firm. The woman, formerly of Wilmington, Illinois, was accused of stealing more than $1 million over a six year period from the Naperville law firm where she worked in the accounting department....
Read MoreWe’ve all seen the popular television programs where buyers bid for the right to purchase abandoned storage lockers. What treasures did the unlucky locker owner lose by failing to pay his rent? Gold? Cash? Antiques? Recently, a storage locker owner lost more than his possessions by failing to pay what was owed. He lost his...
Read MoreFive Chicago men were arrested and stand accused of the kidnapping of a man from outside his suburban home in the Chicago suburb of Berwyn. After being abducted at gunpoint during daytime hours, the man was held for ransom in an auto body shop on the North Side of Chicago. Unfortunately for the kidnappers, they...
Read MoreIntent on robbing and killing a family friend of one of the men, two men drove from Phoenix, Arizona to Chicago, Illinois. Both men have now been arrested and charged with home invasion and first degree murder. A third man was involved, but his status is not known at this time. The victim was a...
Read MoreIt’s every American’s right to put a hood ornament on their car if they choose to do so. It’s certainly not against the law even if it’s big, ugly, or tasteless. It can even light up if that’s your thing. But there are limits. Late on a recent Saturday night, a tree was seen driving...
Read MoreThere’s bad luck – and then there’s really bad luck. The majority of drunk driving arrests in Chicago and surrounding cities involve a driver who gets pulled over due to erratic or unsafe driving like improper lane usage. Many times, the police are dispatched to the scene as a result of a car crash. A...
Read MoreIn Illinois, a battery involves a touching of another person, although not every touching constitutes a battery. For instance, shaking another person's hand is not a battery. The touching must either be proven to be harmful or offensive. Obvious examples of a harmful touching include causing pain to another, breaking the bone of another, hitting...
Read MoreA suburb of Chicago, Aurora spans the counties of Kane, DuPage, Kendall, and Will. Just this week, an elected alderman from Aurora was arrested for the second time on retail theft of merchandise from the same Meijer store location. According to Aurora police, the alderman paid for several items in her shopping cart, but left...
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