MYSTERIOUS: 16 - What They Never Told You

Cook County sheriff’s deputy and her boyfriend indicted on federal drug charges

Bridgett Massey and her boyfriend Sean Dwyer are accused of conspiracy and cocaine possession. Dwyer also faces a federal gun charge.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 15, 2022

2 shot, 1 fatally, in Roseland

One man, 23, was struck in the abdomen and taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. He was pronounced dead early Wednesday morning, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 15, 2022

R. Kelly convicted on child pornography charges at federal trial in Chicago; acquitted of conspiring to obstruct justice

CHICAGO — In a split verdict after a hotly contested trial, a federal jury in Chicago on Wednesday convicted disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly on child pornography charges for videotaping himself sexually abusing his then-14-year-old goddaughter decades ago.

Chicago Tribune · Sep 14, 2022

How UIC has cost Cook County taxpayers $1.2 million

The university never told county officials it was leasing to a preschool — which could be on the hook for over $800,000 in property taxes. So the bills went to a past tenant — which refused to pay the county over $400,000 in taxes but was allowed to renew its…

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 9, 2022

Fioretti announces bid to unseat Preckwinkle as Cook County Board president

Fioretti plans to make public safety a key issue in the campaign.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 7, 2022

Trial kicks off in custody battle over Heather Mack’s daughter

Four people are seeking custody of 7-year-old Estelle Schaefer, known as Stella, in the trial before Cook County Judge Stephanie Miller. Mack and her onetime boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, are charged in federal court with plotting the overseas murder of Mack’s mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 6, 2022

Black union pioneers honored on Labor Day

“Despite Jim Crow and the challenges that Black people faced, people who worked on the railroad had an opportunity to build a better life,” Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said during an event at the Pullman National Monument and State Historic Site.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 6, 2022

Labor Day weekend gun violence in Chicago: 10 killed, 46 wounded, including 13-year-old boy

The fatal attacks included a shooting early Sunday outside a bar in the Loop, and a man who was found with a gunshot wound in Old Town on the Near North Side.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 5, 2022

Cook County Health struggling to fill thousands of jobs

Wait times are “appalling,” one board members says with a quarter of the jobs at the safety net health system open and staff morale low.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 29, 2022

Blagojevich is wrong to criticize criminal justice reforms

It’s a dangerous idea to take away someone’s presumed innocence, and with it their life as they know it, based on statistics.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 29, 2022