With a new year ahead, and a new state’s attorney at the helm of the country’s second-largest prosecutors office, 2025 appears poised for more change, even as systemic issues such as gun violence, ...

The man charged with killing two women in a home in the south suburbs was ordered held in custody at his first court appearance Thursday.

Micheail Ward was found guilty and sentenced to 84 years in prison for the 2013 murder of Pendleton. His conviction was overturned in 2023, and a tie vote from the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the ...

The death of 15-year-old Pendleton just weeks after Barack Obama's second inauguration became a national symbol of Chicago's ...