Tom Schuba

1 week ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Tom Schuba

A Chicago police officer and former University of Illinois quarterback was taken into custody Wednesday after he was allegedly caught stealing sports memorabilia from a store in Evergreen Park. Christopher Pazan, 41, was arrested around 3 p.m. after he swiped roughly $300 worth of baseball cards from the Meijer superstore at 9200 S. Western Ave., according to Evergreen Park Police Sgt. Victor Watts. A security guard had watched on video as Pazan tucked the cards into a yard waste bag, Watts said.

3 weeks ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Fran Spielman |Tom Schuba

The city of Chicago has already gone through the $82 million that Mayor Brandon Johnson set aside for settlements and judgments in 2025. Now the fund could soon be $62.4 million in the hole. That’s how much six new settlements on the agenda for Monday’s meeting of the City Council’s Finance Committee would end up costing taxpayers. That’s not counting a $15.5 million settlement to private investors who leased Chicago parking meters.

3 weeks ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Tom Schuba

El mejor lugar para cobertura de noticias y cultura latina en Chicago. Días antes de que la gente abarrotara dispensarios de marihuana en todo Illinois para probar por primera vez la marihuana legal el 1 de enero de 2020, un empresario influyente de Chicago llamado Carmen A. Rossi estableció una empresa con el objetivo de beneficiarse de la esperada “carrera verde”.

3 weeks ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Tom Schuba

Charges were abruptly dropped Monday against a Chicago police recruit who was arrested last month when he was allegedly found with crack cocaine during a simulated search at the police academy. The court record offers no indication why the felony drug charge was tossed out during his first hearing. But the recruit’s lawyer, Tim Grace, said the case was dropped after testing proved the alleged contraband wasn’t actually narcotics.

3 weeks ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Tom Schuba

A rapper and alleged leader of the violent O Block gang faction was among two men killed in a high-powered ambush attack early Saturday morning in Edgewater that left a third man wounded. Rachaun “Munna Duke” Vance was an associate of Dayvon “King Von” Bennett, the late rapper who was O Block’s most prominent member. Vance was identified by his nickname as a leader of the O Block criminal enterprise during a monthslong racketeering trial at Chicago’s federal courthouse that ended in January 2024.