Suspect who attacked 2 Jewish DePaul students pleads guilty to battery
Adam Erkan pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of battery in the attack. His initial hate crime charges have been dropped.
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Adam Erkan pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of battery in the attack. His initial hate crime charges have been dropped.
Jamie Santiago, 59, faces felony attempted murder and hate crime charges after police said he shot two women, 18 and 19, in West Town last month.
Federal prosecutors said Brandon "Whitey" Simonson, 41, of Minnesota, conspired with fellow inmate Kristopher "No Luck" Martin to kill Matthew Phillips at FCI Thomson, a low-security federal prison in western Illinois in 2020.
A Chicago man has been arrested and charged with a hate crime in a stabbing in the city's Portage Park neighborhood in early July.
Andres Stathoulopoulos, 20, was charged with aggravated battery with use of a deadly weapon and two counts of a hate crime after police said he hurled a racial slur before stabbing a woman in Portage Park last month.
One of the vandalized properties included the Latinos Progresando Community Center, which provides services including immigration legal services and wellness programs.
Joseph Czuba, 73, died less than three months after being sentenced to 53 years in prison for the October 2023 hate crime attack.
Police said four buildings were vandalized, including the Latinos Progresando Community Center, in the Little Village neighborhood on Friday around midnight.
"I genuinely think that their plan was to kill me, and that they didn't care if they ended my life that day," victim Kady Grass said.
A man and a 16-year-old boy have been indicted on hate crime charges, accused of attacking a woman at a McDonald's in Carpentersville, Illinois, because she is a lesbian.
Kady Grass suffered a broken nose, a hemorrhage on her eye, and PTSD after the attack at a McDonald's in Carpentersville last week.
The Kane County State's Attorney's office is considering hate crime charges, after a woman from Carpentersville, Illinois, says a group of strangers attacked her at a McDonald's because she's a lesbian.
The visible injuries on Kady Grass' face only scratched the surface of her pain.
Kady Grass said she was attacked, bloodied, and bruised at her hometown McDonald’s because she is gay. Sara Machi reports.
A Plainfield landlord has been sentenced to 53 years in prison for the Islamophobic hate crime murder of a Palestinian-American boy and the stabbing of the boy's mother.
Adam Erkan, 20, of Hoffman Estates, has been charged with two counts of aggravated battery and two counts of hate crime.
Authorities say Adam Erkan traveled to DePaul University Nov. 6, 2024, distracting two students during a weekly show of support for Israel as another man attacked from behind.
Chicago police say they have a person of interest in custody in regards to two Jewish DePaul University students who were attacked on campus last year.
Max Long and Michael Kaminsky said they were attacked while showing support for Israel outside the DePaul Student Center in Lincoln Park.
Two Jewish students have filed a lawsuit against DePaul University, accusing the school of failing to protect them from what police called a hate crime on campus last November.
The boy's mother, Hanan Shaheen, who also was stabbed, took the witness stand on Tuesday.
Guilty on all charges; late Friday afternoon, a jury convicted Plainfield landlord Joseph Czuba in the hate crime murder of his 6-year-old tenant Wadee Alfayoumi, and the attempted murder of the boy's mother, Hanan Shaheen.
Jurors on Friday found Joseph Czuba guilty of murder and hate crime in the 2023 killing of 6-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi. Prosecutors argued this attack was motivated by anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian extremism, following the escalation of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in October 2023.
A Will County jury has convicted a Plainfield landlord of all charges in the murder of a 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy and the stabbing of the boy's mother in an attack prosecutors say was motivated by his hatred of Muslims.
Will County, Illinois, prosecutors positioned a screen in a way that the jurors and judge could see but not the people watching from the gallery.
A man was shot and killed early Wednesday during a carjacking in Chicago's Northalsted district.
A freight train derailment in Chicago Ridge is impacting Metra SWS service on Wednesday morning.
The city recently made its pitch video to the Bears, calling it "Hallas Harbor."
Frances Dahlke, 88, wanted to make sure her grandson Alex was the one to show her above the clouds for the first time.
The three videos show what happened before and after the shooting by a Border Patrol agent on Oct. 4, 2025, in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood.
A 14-year-old girl said she was "crying" and "struggling to breathe" when law enforcement officers herded her onto a racetrack with other detainees and zip-tied her hands.
DuPage County opened up its polls for early voting in the 2026 primary on Tuesday after a snag.
Chicago aldermen this week will consider $29.2 million in settlements in wrongful convictions linked to disgraced former CPD Det. Reynaldo Guevara.
Two Illinois state legislators want to make sure school districts get the funding they need.
The official DHS statistics, which had not been previously reported, provide the most detailed look yet into who ICE has arrested during the Trump administration's crackdown.
This week marks Identity Theft Awareness Week, and Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza emphasized some safety tips Monday for avoiding and dealing with identity theft.
A controversial data center in Naperville, Illinois, could be the cause to pack a city council meeting there on Tuesday night.
Police in the west Chicago suburb of Geneva are warning of a scam involving spoofed phone numbers.
Protesters on Tuesday were cranking up the heat on Peoples Gas over a recently proposed rate hike that would add an additional $10 to $11 a month to utility bills.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital announced this week that it is planning to open a new pediatric hospital in the west Chicago suburb of Downers Grove.
It has been nearly six years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and one of the many questions doctors are still working to answer concerns the long-term effects.
Leaders from Cook County, the Illinois Department of Human Services, and the Greater Chicago Food Depository denounced changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Wednesday.
The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a grant from The Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation for a new cancer center.
Chicago's Lurie Children's Hospital said Tuesday that it is no longer initiating gender-affirming medical treatment for minors.
A Near West Side diner known for drawing in Blackhawks fans and players is up for sale.
January may be the coldest time of the year, but Chicago is already looking forward to summer farmers' markets.
A development proposal issued this month calls for the replacement of a building housing a Giordiano's pizzeria in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood with a new mixed-use building with 28 residential units.
United Airlines flight attendants picketed outside Chicago's Willis Tower Thursday morning as they fought for a new contract.
WSCR-AM, 670 The Score, will begin a simulcast on 104.3 FM next month.
The 31-year-old Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny took the stage on Sunday dressed in all white, donning a jersey with his last name, Ocasio, and the number 64.
Brad Arnold, the founder and lead singer of the 3 Doors Down has died following "his courageous battle with cancer," the rock band announced Saturday on social media.
Bad Bunny took the stage at halftime for the 2026 Super Bowl. Here's who else performed at Super Bowl 60.
Gamers across the world can now recreate drone strikes in Ukraine from the comfort of their own home, with this newly released game.
The members of Ratboys were teenagers when they met by chance, and now in their 30s, the Chicago band formed by two college friends almost two decades ago appears to be on the brink of something big.
A freight train derailment near Chicago Ridge is impacting Metra SWS service on Wednesday morning.
At least nine people were killed and dozens more injured in shootings at a high school and residence in the northeast part of the province of British Columbia, Canadian police said Tuesday.
Meteorologist Laura Bannon is tracking mild conditions.
The search for Nancy Guthrie continues after a person of interest was detained and then released.
While the team's season is over, the renewed push for a new stadium is in playoff mode, with more cities throwing their hats and money at the team to come to their community.
A man was shot and killed early Wednesday during a carjacking in Chicago's Northalsted district.
A freight train derailment in Chicago Ridge is impacting Metra SWS service on Wednesday morning.
The three videos show what happened before and after the shooting by a Border Patrol agent on Oct. 4, 2025, in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood.
The city recently made its pitch video to the Bears, calling it "Hallas Harbor."
CBS News Chicago is tracking what led to the death of an 8-year-old boy in Round Lake Beach and whether state officials were aware of any red flags before his murder.
CBS News Chicago is tracking what led to the death of an 8-year-old boy in Round Lake Beach and whether state officials were aware of any red flags before his murder.
This is due in part to the new "Big Beautiful Bill" and job cuts at the Internal Revenue Service.
Fewer Chicago kids are getting the dental care they need, and some dentists are blaming Chicago Public Schools.
Cynthia Eason recounted the moment Chicago police officers raided her family's home in 2018.
Water bills could be going up in several Chicago suburbs and other parts of Illinois, as Illinois American Water seeks a rate increase to fund infrastructure improvements.
The city recently made its pitch video to the Bears, calling it "Hallas Harbor."
The White Sox and Cubs are opening up camp in the desert, with both teams feeling good about more than the warmer weather.
Indiana plans to build a bronze statue of longtime basketball coach Bob Knight inside Assembly Hall, where he led the Hoosiers to national championships in 1976, 1981 and 1987.
Keith Brookshire details his friendship with Seattle Seahawks wide receivers coach Frisman Jackson and the generosity he continues to provide to Chicago student athletes.
Anfernee Simons scored 23 points for Chicago, which lost its fifth straight.
A man was shot and killed early Wednesday during a carjacking in Chicago's Northalsted district.
FBI Director Kash Patel posted videos of a person outside the home of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Savannah Guthrie, on the morning of her disappearance.
Kouri Richins allegedly poisoned her husband Eric by putting a fatal dose of fentanyl in his drink, leading to his sudden death in 2022.
A woman stood charged Tuesday with slashing a woman in a fight in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood this past weekend.
A man has been charged and extradited from Iowa in a 2024 shooting that left another man dead in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood.
