Sam Charles

1 day ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Caroline Kubzansky |Sam Charles

CHICAGO - Jurors in the federal corruption trial against Illinois state Sen. Emil Jones III sent the judge a series of questions Tuesday before wrapping a first full day of deliberations. All told, the panel sent U.S. District Judge Andrea Wood five questions that largely centered around the intent and timing of the alleged $5,000 campaign contribution at the heart of the prosecution's case. The judge, prosecutors and Jones' defense lawyers spent hours hashing out language to send back in response.

2 days ago | swoknews.com | Caroline Kubzansky |Sam Charles

CHICAGO — Jurors in the federal corruption trial against Illinois state Sen. Emil Jones III sent the judge a series of questions Tuesday before wrapping a first full day of deliberations. All told, the panel sent U.S. District Judge Andrea Wood five questions that largely centered around the intent and timing of the alleged $5,000 campaign contribution at the heart of the prosecution’s case. The judge, prosecutors and Jones’ defense lawyers spent hours hashing out language to send back in response.

3 days ago | chicagotribune.com | Sam Charles

Brian Ramson, one of the district councilors for the Chicago Police Department’s Harrison District on the West Side, moved to Chicago in 2013. Since then, he said, he’s been pulled over by police roughly 50 times — about four of those coming after he was sworn in less than two years ago. A search of Cook County court records suggests Ramson — a physicist at Fermilab who is Black  — has never been issued a ticket, let alone arrested. And he may not be alone.

1 week ago | chicagotribune.com | Sam Charles

A CTA employee was charged with illegal gun possession following a fatal shooting near a train station in the West Loop last weekend, court records show. Luther Hopkins, 24, was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon in connection with the April 12 shooting death of 61-year-old John Flemister in the 400 block of South Peoria, according to Cook County court records. During his initial court appearance Tuesday, a county judge ordered Hopkins released pending trial.

1 week ago | chicagotribune.com | Sam Charles

Since the city’s consent decree was entered more than six years ago, the independent monitoring team has often stressed that the Chicago Police Department must bolster its data collection and analysis efforts. How often officers point their weapons and use force, how they are trained, when and where they are deployed are just a few of the thousands of data points that CPD generates every single day.