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A Cook County judge’s car was stolen Saturday afternoon outside a gas station in the McKinley Park neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest Side, authorities said.

Adam Hollingsworth, known as the Dread Head Cowboy, was warned by a Cook County judge Tuesday that he can be held in contempt of court if he continues to lie about his court case on social media, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.

An attorney hired by Jussie Smollett to lead the actor’s defense against charges accusing him of lying to Chicago police is now fighting to stay on the case after another attorney accused him of talking to two key witnesses about representing them.

A judge has upheld the firing of a Chicago police officer for his role in the alleged cover-up of police actions in the 2014 murder of Laquan McDonald

More Cook County voters participated in judicial retention races this year than in any election in the past three decades, according to an Injustice Watch analysis of election data.

Cook County Circuit Court Judge Mauricio Araujo resigned Thursday, according to the Judicial Inquiry Board. His resignation will take effect on Monday. Araujo was facing the possibility of removal from the bench after the Illinois Courts Commission found Tuesday that there was “clear and convincing evidence” that he engaged in a pattern of inappropriate and harassing behavior toward women. The…

More than 800 nurses at the University of Illinois Hospital will go on a one-week starting Saturday morning as the nurses’ union and hospital administrators remain far apart on contract negotiations with no deal in sight. The Illinois Nurses Association, which represents the hundreds of UIH nurses working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, is seeking to resolve…

A man is wanted for murder in a Humboldt Park shooting last month that killed a man and critically wounded a woman.

So-called “serial stowaway” Marilyn Hartman pleaded guilty in court Tuesday to felony trespass at an airport and was sentenced to probation.

So-called “serial stowaway” Marilyn Hartman pleaded guilty in court Tuesday to felony trespass at an airport and was sentenced to probation. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers reports.

There will be no one staying or working overnight in R. Kelly’s recording studio on North Justine Street.

Attorneys for R. Kelly were back in court Friday, asking a judge to give him more access to his rented studio space on the near west side. nBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski has the details. 

A judge says a Chicago warehouse that R. Kelly is renting can be used only between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. and only as a recording studio.

An inspection of rapper R. Kelly’s rental property on Chicago’s Near West Side was scheduled to take place Wednesday. NBC 5’s Ash-har Quraishi has the latest.

A Chicago man who was granted a new trial after 28 years behind bars will have to wait a bit longer to learn if he can actually gain genuine freedom.