Anita Alvarez

Bill Conway is up with an ad in the race for Cook County state’s attorney in which he says he was fired upon while serving in the military overseas. “When I was in Afghanistan, I experienced the trauma of being fired upon,” Conway said in his ad that was released on Nov. 15. “It’s something I think about every...

The father of a 9-year-old murder victim has been convicted of gun charges less than a week after two Chicago men were convicted in his son’s death. A Cook County judge on Wednesday found Tyshawn Lee’s father, Pierre Stokes, guilty of gun possession and aggravated battery. The charges stemmed from a 2014 argument in which witnesses said Stokes flashed a...

 A second guilty verdict was handed down on Friday in the 2015 killing of a 9-year-old in Chicago. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

A jury on Friday announced a guilty verdict for the man accused of planning the brutal murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, who was lured into a Chicago alley and shot execution-style amid what authorities believe was a gang war.

Nearly two weeks after it began, the trials for two men accused of fatally shooting a 9-year-old Chicago boy point-blank in what prosecutors alleged stemmed from a gang war will soon be left to a jury.

In the second day of the murder trial for two men accused of shooting a 9-year-old boy point-blank in a Chicago alley in 2015, family of the young boy and multiple law enforcement officers took the stand.

Opening statements began Tuesday in the murder trial for two men accused of killing 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee execution-style in Chicago in what prosecutors allege all began over a gang war.

The murder trial begins Tuesday for two men charged with the killing of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, whose shooting death shook Chicago to its core four years earlier. Tyshawn was a fourth-grader who was playing basketball in November 2015 when prosecutors say he was lured away from the playground with the promise of a juice box, only to be shot at...

It stands as one of Chicago’s most horrific crimes, in large part because of small details that are impossible to shake: The promise of a juice box that lured the 9-year-old boy off a playground and into an alley, and the basketball he dropped when he was shot and killed there.

Cook County Democrats on Friday reportedly endorsed State’s Attorney Kim Foxx for re-election.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx has her first official opponent in the Democratic primary.

A rare scene in the American justice system unfolded Friday in a Chicago courthouse: A white officer stood before a mostly white jury and was convicted of killing a black teenager.

Here’s a look at some of the key players in the murder trial of white Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke for the shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald.

It has been almost 50 years since a Cook County jury convicted a Chicago police officer of first-degree murder. But when the eight women and four men who will decide the fate of Jason Van Dyke retire to the jury room and begin their deliberations, they will be left with few choices.