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At least 60 incarcerated people have died in Cook County Jail, the largest single-site jail in the U.S., since 2017, according to the jail’s data. For Cook County officials, these numbers ...
A 32-year-old inmate at the Cook County Jail has died after suffering an apparent medical emergency.
Richard Benjamin Speck (December 6, 1941 – December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence via stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13–14, 1966. One victim was also raped prior to her murder.
King Von. Dayvon Daquan Bennett (August 9, 1994 – November 6, 2020), known professionally as King Von, was an American rapper and gangster from Chicago, Illinois, who was affiliated with the Black Disciples gang. [5][6][7][8] He is widely considered one of the most preeminent figures of the drill genre. Bennett garnered acclaim for singles ...
An inmate at Cook County Jail was beaten to death in the hospital wing, according to sheriff officials. Jail staff responded to commotion at 9:06 a.m. Tuesday and found two inmates fighting, a ...
The Ford Heights Four (Verneal Jimerson, [1] Dennis Williams, [2] Kenneth Adams, [3] and Willie Rainge) were formerly imprisoned convicts, who were falsely accused and convicted of the double murder of Lawrence Lionberg and Carol Schmal in Ford Heights, Illinois, and later exonerated. Jimerson and Williams were sentenced to death, Adams to 75 ...
Newspapers ran photos of her children, bearing such headlines as "Orphaned by Crime." The stories exacerbated racial tensions in Chicago, and the murder and resulting press frightened the white residents of Johnson's North Kenwood District and the adjacent Kenwood neighborhood, triggering white flight from the once-elite areas that now bordered ...
CHICAGO - A 27-year-old Chicago woman has been charged with smuggling drug-soaked paper into Cook County Jail during a visit with a person in custody.. Jada Henry was arrested on Monday after she ...