CHICAGO, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The city of Chicago tentatively has agreed to pay nearly $20 million to four African-American men allegedly tortured by police, it was reported Saturday.

CHICAGO, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The city of Chicago has reportedly reached an agreement with four men who allegedly were tortured for their confessions by former police commander Jon Burge.

CHICAGO, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has been ordered to answer questions under oath about police misconduct when he served as Cook County state's attorney. The ruling by U.S. Magistrate Geraldine Soat Brown comes in the case of a pardoned death row inmate who,

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CHICAGO, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court said former murder convict Andre Wallace waited too long to sue Chicago for wrongful arrest.

CHICAGO, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Illinois Gov. George Ryan prepared Friday to clean out his state's death row, ordering three condemned inmates released from prison and saying a fourth inmate probably should be free as well.