CHICAGO | The union representing Chicago's police officers will help pay the legal bills of a former detective commander facing federal charges of lying about the torture of prisoners, a ...

James Gibson was convicted of a double murder he did not commit. For more than three decades, James Gibson has said he was tortured by Chicago police detectives directly supervised by Jon Burge, a ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — A man who spent nearly 30 years in prison for a crime he long maintained he didn’t commit walked out of the Cook County Jail on Thursday evening after a judge vacated the ...

Chicago taxpayers are on the hook for another $15 million to settle police misconduct lawsuits, including cases linked to two of the department’s most notorious members, Jon Burge and Ronald Watts.

I don’t know if people remember what happened in the exposé, and he even went to court and was convicted of perjury, lying about the cover-up of torture of Black men in Chicago, Jon Burge.

CHICAGO (CN) — The Chicago city council voted Wednesday to pay $50 million to four Black men who wrongly spent decades behind bars. It's one of the most expensive police misconduct cases the city has ...

In 2010, we wrote about the stench that disgraced ex-Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge attached to law enforcement in this city. Tactics to coerce confessions, said victims of Burge and his rogue ...

Gerald Reed, a former Illinois inmate who alleged he was beaten by Chicago police detectives who worked under disgraced former Cmdr. Jon Burge, was released from prison last year after Gov. J.B ...

A man who served more than three decades behind bars for a 1982 cop killing was officially declared innocent Friday after years of alleging he was tortured and framed for a shooting his brother ...

A man who served more than three decades behind bars for a 1982 cop killing was officially declared innocent Friday after years of alleging he was tortured and framed for a shooting his brother ...

Once Cook County Circuit Court Judge Angela Petrone agreed to vacate the conviction, Weston's family hustled outside the courtroom, and screamed in the hallway "Thank you, Jesus!" and "Praise Jesus!" ...

This is a beginning. The court has spoken and I will finally be heard," Burge, who died last year, led the "midnight crew" that have been accused of torturing suspects between 1972 and 1991.