Here’s who federal sources and other Mob watchers say has been running the Outfit since it first became a force in the city—and the key events of its history Read more
A bill working its way through the Illinois legislature would ban employers from asking for your social media passwords. Your public likes and tweets are still fair game—unless they're "concerted." Read more
Hactivist Jeremy Hammond, practitioner of not-so-civil disobedience, gets busted by the feds... for the second time in his young life. It's practically a replay of his first arrest. Read more
THE EYES HAVE IT: If police sketches help nab crooks, why are they a dying art? And how do sketch artists make heads or tails of witnesses’ memories anyway? I launch an investigation to find out Read more
The Bears' receiver and special-teams captain faces a maximum of 40 years and a $5 million fine if he's convicted of drug trafficking. But if his football predecessors in the drug trade are any indication, expect a lighter sentence. Read more
Rahm Emanuel announced today that the head of Newark's police department will be the next superintendent of the Chicago Police Department. There's a lot that's familiar: experience with technologies like Compstat and surveillance cameras, and union tensions. Read more
Sixteen years ago, Derrick Lemon watched as his brother was dropped out a window of the Ida B. Wells housing complex. Today, at the age of 24, Lemon was sentenced to 71 years in prison for shooting a man in 2006. Read more
