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The officers involved in two highly polarizing fatal shootings in Chicago – the killings of 13-year-old Adam Toledo and 22-year-old Anthony Alvarez – will not face charges, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced Tuesday.

Actor Jussie Smollett is scheduled to return to court in Chicago, where he will learn if a judge will order him locked up for his conviction of lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack that he orchestrated himself or allow him to remain free.

A newly released report finds prosecutors’ handling of the initial case against former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett represented a “major failure of operations.”

A judge has thrown out nine more felony drug convictions who were framed by a disgraced former Chicago police sergeant who spent years arresting people he planted drugs on dozens of others

A special prosecutor in Chicago said Monday that Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and her office abused their discretion in the case against actor Jussie Smollett but did nothing criminal.

The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday denied former Empire actor Jussie Smollett’s request to halt the proceedings against him and disqualify the special prosecutor appointed in his case.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced her campaign for re-election on Tuesday with a video in which she admitted that with regard to the case of actor Jussie Smollett, she “didn’t handle it well.”

Olabinjio Osundairo and Abimola Osundairo filed a federal lawsuit against Jussie Smollett’s legal team on Tuesday, alleging that the “Empire” actor’s attorneys defamed the brothers throughout the saga surrounding the attack Smollett claimed to have suffered in Chicago in January.

A trove of documents obtained Tuesday by NBC 5 from the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office show that Kim Foxx was communicating with her staff about Jussie Smollett, even after she said she was recused from the case — and expressed concerns that Smollett, who she called “a washed up celeb who lied to cops,” was being over charged.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx has asked county Inspector General Patrick Blanchard to investigate her office’s handling of the Jussie Smollett case, she announced Friday.

R. Kelly surrendered to Chicago police Friday night after being ushered away from his West Side recording studio in a black van. The R&B star appeared in court Saturday.

After decades of allegations, R. Kelly has been charged with criminal sexual abuse in Illinois’ Cook County.

R. Kelly has been charged with criminal sexual abuse in Cook County, court records show Friday.

Attorney Michael Avenatti said his office has been “quietly” investigating allegations made against embattled singer R. Kelly and has turned over “significant new evidence conclusively establishing Mr. Kelly’s illegal sexual assault of young girls.”

A man whose conviction in a double murder case was based on suspect evidence has been released from prison after more than 20 years.