Frank Main

The two Glock pistols were found during a search of the New York apartment of the now-imprisoned Jawad Fakroune, a politically connected businessman who falsely claimed to be a son of drug lord Pablo Escobar.

Nakia Smith, a volunteer in Duncan's anti-violence group, entered a deal with Cook County prosecutors in which he pleaded guilty in exchange for not going to prison. Smith claims he was trying to turn in a gun at a Far South Side police station when he was arrested in 2023.

Duncan runs Chicago CRED, which works to prevent shootings. He says volunteer Nakia Smith, arrested in a Far South Side police station in 2023, has been "fighting for the good." Smith, a convicted felon, says he was trying to turn over an unwanted gun to the police when he was arrested.

David Berger, a co-founder of Ivy Hall cannabis dispensaries in Chicago and across Illinois, was convicted of "structuring" $253,000 in cash deposits from a Mexican drug organization to skirt bank reporting rules.

Jawad Fakroune, who grew up in Morocco, was convicted of extortion for beating and threatening a restaurant owner over a $1.5 million debt.

Steve Fanady, 61, isn't in jail for a crime. He's being held for civil contempt but says he doesn't have the money to pay up. He says he lives on hard-boiled eggs and peanut butter in the Cook County Jail. And he wants out. The courts have found his jailing "coercive" but legal.

Cook County Circuit Judge Charles Burns rejected a first-degree murder conviction Thursday for Henry Graham because of longstanding Illinois court rulings that attackers in one-punch deaths aren't presumed to know their actions could result in a killing.

Abdulhafedh Abdulhafedh, 25, led the 100K Gang, a crew suspected in armed robberies of BMO bank branches in the Chicago area, the FBI says. The lawyer for a suspected accomplice, Dayvon Walton, says the FBI didn't give him access to his client before he allegedly admitted to participating in a…

Reporter Frank Main, with his son’s amateur detective work, found that more than a century ago, his missionary great-grandfather lived in a summer home in Kuliang, a town that’s become a symbol of cultural ties between the U.S. and China — and is close to the heart of China’s President Xi Jinping.

It's the latest twist in the story of the Chicago man who, upon being freed from prison in 2009 after serving 16 years for a murder he said he didn't commit, used the money to try to buy a gang, fueling a gang war that one cop said "blew up the West Side." He went back to prison for shooting a man,…