Standing outside the Bright Star Church amid a backdrop of supporters in her native Bronzeville neighborhood on Chicago’s ...

The top brass in the U.S. attorney's office needs to figure out why they have had such a miserably low initial conviction ...

Just one day into her campaign to replace retiring Sen. Dick Durbin in the U.S. Senate, Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton on Friday ...

Anyone who spent even five minutes with Steve McMichael knew he would have kept life’s party going forever — an endless ...

A federal judge on Thursday declared a mistrial in the case of state Sen. Emil Jones III, D-Chicago, after a jury deadlocked ...

Deliberations continued for nearly 23 hours before jury arrived at stalemate in the federal bribery trial of Illinois Sen.

The jury considering state Sen. Emil Jones III's federal corruption trial had indicated late Wednesday that it may be ...

It’s the first trial of a sitting state lawmaker since former state Rep. Derrick Smith, who was found guilty of bribery by a ...

The corruption trial of state Sen. Emil Jones III ended with a mistrial Thursday, with the jury unable to find agreement on ...

After note warning of an impasse, judge tells jury in trial of state Sen. Emil Jones III a deadlock would be premature at ...

A mistrial was declared after a federal jury considering the bribery case against Illinois Sen. Emil Jones III could not make a unanimous decision on any of the three charges that have loomed over the ...