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“It’s Halloween, and somebody is going to die tonight.” Those were the chilling words of a Chicago gang member who made good on his threat by firing a hail of bullets into a car on Halloween night in ...

CHICAGO — Labar Spann, a longtime leader of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang, was sentenced to life in federal prison. Spann was convicted in December of last year following a five-week trial on ...

Thaddeus Jimenez won one of Chicago’s largest police misconduct settlements.