Tom Schuba

6 days ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Tom Schuba

Days before people swarmed marijuana dispensaries across Illinois to get their first taste of legal weed on Jan. 1, 2020, a clout-heavy Chicago businessman named Carmen A. Rossi established a company aiming to cash in on the expected “green rush.”On the company’s incorporation papers, he listed Alex Acevedo, a son of former state Rep. Edward “Eddie” Acevedo, who had recently lost a Chicago City Council race, as a manager.

1 week ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Peter Nickeas |Casey Toner |Tom Schuba

A woman shot in a leg while getting a ride to her South Side home. A mother and son who dodged bullets as they tried to thwart a car break-in. Another woman who, after her car was stolen, learned it had been used in a shooting, with a bullet cracking its windshield and shell casings on the floor. Each of their stories has the same twist: The same Glock handgun was used in all three crimes. That happened even though that gun was supposed to have been destroyed.

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

A man charged with fatally shooting six people on Chicago’s Southwest Side allegedly got sexual gratification from killing and returned to crime scenes to defile memorials for the victims, Cook County prosecutors disclosed Thursday. Antonio Reyes, 21, was flanked by four Cook County sheriff’s deputies as he stepped into Judge Mary M. Broshnahan’s courtroom wearing a green jail jumpsuit, his arms and face covered in tattoos.

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

Rap superstar Lil Durk moved Friday to have his murder-for-hire case tossed out, arguing that prosecutors misled a grand jury when they tied the killing to his lyrics. Attorneys for Lil Durk, real name Durk Banks, said the case hinges on a “fundamental factual error” — that Durk recorded a song mocking rival rapper Quando Rondo about the attack in Los Angeles in August 2022.

4 weeks ago | nbcchicago.com | Tom Schuba |Sophie Sherry

Mayor Brandon Johnson is now being forced to reconsider his decision to shut down the controversial ShotSpotter system — a move that set off a search for police technologies that some business leaders have slammed as slipshod and frantic. SoundThinking, ShotSpotter’s parent company, is among eight firms that submitted proposals to provide citywide “gun violence detection technology,” according to records from the bidding process, which ended Friday.