The proposed Chinatown land transfer is one of five separate schemes prosecutors have accused former House Speaker Michael Madigan of orchestrating.

The 533 homicides recorded across Chicago through the end of November mark a nearly 9% decline compared to the same time last year, according to CPD data. That total is also nearly 19% below 2022’s pace and 29% below 2021’s pace.

Solis’ undercover work helped bring down two of Illinois’ biggest and longest-serving Democratic powerbrokers. Former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke is now serving a two-year prison sentence after his bribery, racketeering and extortion convictions last December, while the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is in its seventh week of testimony. 

Solis’ extraordinary cooperation deal will see the single bribery charge that was eventually pressed against him in 2022 dropped so long as prosecutors are satisfied with the truthfulness of his testimony in the trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

“Temp workers are injured at a much higher rate than direct hire workers because they don’t get training,” said Chris Williams, a workers’ rights attorney who brought the case on behalf of the Chicago Workers’ Collaborative.

The president said in a statement that his son’s prosecution on charges of tax evasion and falsifying a federal weapons purchase form were politically motivated.

The government wrapped up 14 hours of questions for ex-Ald. Danny Solis on the witness stand halfway through a trial in which former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is accused of bribery, racketeering and extortion.

Former Ald. Danny Solis (25th Ward) marks the most substantial witness in the government’s case against former House Speaker Michael Madigan. Solis began his testimony last week, and he is expected to be on the witness stand for several days.

The Justice Department believes President-elect Donald Trump can no longer be tried in accordance with longstanding policy that says sitting presidents cannot be prosecuted.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of six organizations and six individuals against Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Illinois Department of Insurance Director Ann Gillespie and Attorney General Kwame Raoul.

The court ruled Thursday that special prosecutor Dan Webb and his team had no standing to charge the former “Empire” star after Foxx and her office initially resolved the case through an agreement which saw Smollett forfeit the $10,000 he paid in bond and complete 16 hours of community service.

Szustakiewicz was at a Panera Bread restaurant in the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove on Saturday “when she confronted and yelled expletives at a man regarding a sweatshirt he was wearing with the word Palestine written on it,” the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office and Downers Grove police said Monday in a statement.

Michael Madigan, 82, and Michael McClain, 77, are charged with racketeering, bribery and wire fraud. They have each pleaded not guilty.

Devontay Shields, 35, of Danville, Illinois, has been charged with one count of attempted kidnapping, according to a criminal complaint filed over the weekend in Chicago’s federal court.

The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones' Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax.

Prosecutors on Tuesday wrapped up their direct questioning of former ComEd exec turned government mole Fidel Marquez — who spent his fourth day on the witness stand — allowing McClain’s defense attorney Patrick Cotter to begin his cross examination.