Jeff Coen

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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

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…

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…

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

There are many tragic murder cases that have become lodged in Chicago’s collective memory. There are also many that have been forgetten, lost to history without a closer look into what really…