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A third detainee at Cook County Jail in Chicago has died after contracting COVID-19, officials announced Sunday, with hundreds of others infected by the coronavirus at one of the nation’s largest jails. Nicholas Lee, 42, was pronounced dead Sunday at Stroger Hospital, where he had been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office said in...

Singer R. Kelly has asked a federal judge to release him from jail during the coronavirus crisis sweeping the U.S. In a motion filed Thursday, Kelly’s attorneys ask Judge Harry Leinenweber to move a bail hearing for the R&B singer “and order granting release.” The letter to the judge claims Kelly, who is in jail as he awaits both...

So-called serial stowaway Marilyn Hartman was taken back into custody Friday evening after making yet another appearance at O’Hare Airport, police confirmed Saturday.

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So-called “serial stowaway” Marilyn Hartman was back in custody Sunday after appearing at O’Hare Airport, just three days after she was released on bond for evading a TSA checkpoint and boarding a flight to London.

A judge ordered so-called “serial stowaway” Marilyn Hartman held on $25,000 bond Saturday after she was arrested for taking yet another unauthorized flight.

A Chicago woman posted the rape of an unconscious 23-year-old on social media after the two fought over a man they met at a party, prosecutors said.

Cook County jail officials say a Chicago teenager who’s been locked up since last year has required more than $1 million in medical care because he ingests pieces of metal and other objects.