Jeff Coen

Sorting truth from myth in former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s conviction: 5 things to know

Federal appeals judges signaled they could be about to overturn a historic jury verdict against the city of Chicago for a shooting involving an off-duty officer’s gun, even though the city no…

An Illinois judge took the rare step Thursday of declaring a Kankakee man innocent of murder after the state’s attorney agreed the man had spent nearly two decades in prison for a crime he di…

After child witness recants two decades later, an Illinois man sues both the prosecutors and public defender involved in his murder trial

Few issues in recent Chicago history have been as contentious as former Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s decision to close half the city’s mental health clinics, and now Lori Lightfoot will inherit…

A council of Christian leaders tapped to review last year’s tumultuous exit of Bill Hybels from Willow Creek Community Church has concluded that claims of “sexually inappropriate words …

With his mental state deteriorating as he sat in the crushing isolation of solitary confinement, a desperate inmate named Anthony Gay saw a temporary way out. Sometimes it came in the form of a con…

The large November 2008 heroin drop near O’Hare International Airport was unusual for more than one reason. For starters, the Sinaloa cartel had sent 20 kilos instead of the promised 18, perh…

In untold hundreds of truck and train shipments, tons of cocaine rolled into Chicago hidden among loads of vegetables, shrimp, and even live sheep. The city acted as the American distribution cente…

Billionaire Democrat J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday soundly defeated first-term Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, who conceded his re-election bid less than an hour after the polls closed, giving Democrats n…

They sought his repentance, not his resignation. So when the Rev. Bill Hybels, founder of northwest suburban Willow Creek Community Church, announced Tuesday he would step down to avoid hindering t…

The city of Chicago has told federal officials it is complying with a request for documents related to the ongoing dispute over its “sanctuary city” status by sending the Chicago Police…

The city of Chicago will assemble a legal team dedicated to suing corporations and other organizations that it believes violate the law, a move that officials say will protect residents and fill th…

The Illinois Supreme Court has issued a 90-day suspension to a former city of Chicago lawyer accused of withholding information in a civil case stemming from a fatal police shooting, according to a…

Federal inmate 40892-424 has his voice back. More than five years after he went to prison for corruption, disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich is speaking out for the first time since beginning hi…

Rap star Lil Wayne was taken to a Chicago hospital over the weekend after suffering an apparent seizure, Chicago Fire Department officials confirmed Monday. The 34-year-old rapper, whose real name …

In a tiny basement courtroom of a federal building on Congress Parkway, Francisco Casas-Torres explained to a judge how he came to be in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the p…

On most mornings, the names of people arrested and headed to bond court at Chicago’s main criminal courthouse are written on paper lists tacked to a bulletin board in a hallway outside the co…

A former White House counsel has been named the city of Chicago’s next top lawyer, as current Corporation Counsel Stephen Patton announced his upcoming departure after six pivotal years durin…

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Law Department again has been sanctioned for withholding records involving a fatal police shooting, marking the eighth time in recent years a federal judge has formally p…