A North Side man has been charged with sexually assaulting two women he met on an online dating site. more ›

The 16-year-old has been charged as an adult with multiple counts of rape, robbery and criminal deviate conduct. more ›

"Women should avoid dressing like sluts in order to not be victimized." That's what a representative of the Toronto Police Service said, prompting Torontoites to create SlutWalk. It's a march to raise awareness of sexual assault and of this kind of slut-shaming that prevents many women from reporting attacks. more ›

27-year-old Sonny Pierce has been charged with the rapes and murders of three teenage girls. Cook County State's Attorney Anital Alvarez and law enforcement authorities believe the three women Pierce is accused of killing may only be the start of a series of murders and have asked citizens with any information linking him to unsolved murders to come forward. more ›

Cortez Foster, the suspect in Saturday's beating and sexual assault of a 65-year-old man in the South Loop, has been ordered held without bail. We're also starting to find out the extent of the injuries suffered by the victim in the beating, and they're even more "WTF?" than advertised. more ›

A 45-year-old man has been arrested and is being questioned in connection with a brutal sexual assault and beating of a 65-year-old man in the South Loop early Saturday. the victim was found naked and bloodied walking around Michigan and Polk shortly after midnight Saturday. An exam found that he was also sexually assaulted with a tree branch and his cell phone was stolen. The suspect is on parole for a robbery conviction and his address is listed as the 1400 block of South Canal, which is also where the Pacific Garden Mission is located more ›

• Police continue to search for a man accused of following a woman off of a Blue Line train sexually assaulting her in late August.
• A woman who tried to leave her three year old son at a police station was arrested and charged with drug possession and child endangerment.
• Oak Park is mulling a dress code for cabbies.

• Catching up on Gregory Banks' dramatic testimony yesterday in the Burge trial.
• The search is on for a suspect in a West Lakeview sexual assault earlier this week.
• Bucktown bat attack victim Natasha McShane continues a slow but steady recovery.

The National Institutes of Health is sending some cash towards UIC for a new study focusing on how victims of sexual assault deal with the trauma of their attacks. The school is receiving a $2 million grant for "a five-year study examining how support the victims receive relates to post-traumatic stress disorder, problem drinking and positive adaptation." The school plans to track the progress of roughly 1,800 women for the study. [ABC 7] more ›

Police have issued a community alert for the Southwest Side after multiple attacks over the last few days. The man is accused of raping two teens, flashing a third girl, and attempting to attack another who managed to escape. The first rape occurred last Thursday in the 8200 block of South Sacramento and the second last Friday near 79th and South Maplewood. more ›

• A Chicago Public Schools student has been arrested for sexually assaulting a seven-year-old.
• State legislators approved a plan to place a constitutional amendment that allows for the recall of the governor on next year's ballot.
• GQ has put together their list of D.C.'s most powerful people and Rahmbo comes in at Number One.

In connection to Thursday's sexual assault case in Wicker Park, a 35-year-old man was taken into questioning and released without being charged. According to police News Affair Officer, Robert Perez, who provided details to the Chicago Sun-Times, the assault took place on the 1300 block of North Wolcott Avenue just before 4 a.m. Police said that the 28-year-old woman was entering a building when her attacker allegedly grabbed her from behind, placed a knife to her neck, and said "Don't move or I'm going to kill you" Then he allegedly pulled her down the stairs to the building's basement and sexually assaulted her on the stairway, allegedly telling her that he was "going to kill her if she screamed" police said. more ›

DNA evidence linked a fifth victim to a postal worker charged with assaulting four other women, Chicago Breaking News reports. more ›

• A man recently paroled after almost 30 years in jail for rape has been charged with a sexual assault that occurred early Tuesday in Lincoln Park.
• There's a bit of trouble for Mayor Daley's press secretary Jacquelyn Heard as it seems like she's the owner of a reputed drug house.
• Someone's taken their political differences too far: Cook Co. Commissioner Deborah Sims received racist and threatening phone calls over her decision to switch sides and back Todd Stroger's tax veto.

It was a violent July, but for the first six months of 2009, crime was down overall across the city compared with the same time period in 2008. The Sun-Times has a break-down of the stats and shows a nine percent decrease in overall crime, including a three percent decrease in violent crime. more ›

• Bail was set at $1 million for the cab driver accused of sexually assaulting a passenger.
• University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman spoke briefly today on ending the admissions process at the school that gives favor to certain "connected" students.
• The FBI is now investigating a suspicious package found this morning at Riverside Plaza.

Cab driver Fred Batrony (pictured right) is in police custody today after an alleged sexual assault of a female passenger late Friday night. The 24-year-old woman hailed Batrony's cab near Fullerton and Clark and asked him to take her to Diversey and Clark. Instead, Batrony allegedly took the woman to a secluded area and assaulted her before dropping her off. Once she was out of the cab, the woman contacted police and gave them a detailed description of Batrony and his cab. Police tracked him down late last night and he's been charged with kidnapping and criminal sexual abuse. [ABC 7, CBN] more ›

A man accused of two rapes in the Bucktown neighborhood has been arrested. Damario McNeil, 31, of Lawndale, was arrested and charged with one count of attempt first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated criminal assault and two counts of aggravated kidnapping and one count of armed robbery. The first rape occurred in February in the 2300 block of W. Moffat, very close to the Western/Milwaukee Blue Line stop. The second assault happened just a few weeks ago, a bit further from the same Blue Line stop but still in the vicinity, in the 2000 block of W. Charleston. Police think McNeil could be linked to at least two other assaults, another in February close to the Western/Milwaukee Blue Line stop and one last September close to the Damen/North Blue Line stop. [Chicago Breaking News] more ›

• Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan filed suit today against Crestwood mayor Robert Stranczek and his father for lying to the state and their community over tainted cancer-causing water coming from a nearby well.
• The Sun-Times has the story of Mark Clements, a man convicted of four arson-related deaths from a 1981 incident, and his appeal for a new trial.
• There's trouble in Cicero where town president Larry Dominick has been accused of sexual assault and harassment by four former female employees.

• Rev. Steve Wu, the pastor of Willow Creek Chicago - part of the megachurch Willow Creek Community Church, has resigned due to acts of "sexual impurity."
• The strange, terrible saga of Lockport, Illinois soldier Sgt. Michael Leahy Jr. continues.
• Well, it's no Miracle on the Hudson, but props to the pilot of a small plane who managed to make an emergency landing on the frozen Gray's Lake yesterday.

• Former priest Donald McGuire was sentenced to 25 years for having sex with a minor.
• Aquan Lewis, the 10-year-old boy who was found hanging from a hook in a school bathroom and later died, was laid to rest today.
• The 3rd District Appellate Court has upheld a ruling that Drew Peterson is not the suitable person to gain control of the estate of his murdered third wife, Kathleen Savio.

A woman was pushed into a Metra train late last night in an attempt to fight off a potential sexual assault. more ›

Ronald Vos, the middle school teacher from MacArthur Middle School in Prospect Heights, was found dead at his home today of an apparent suicide. The report of his death comes less than 48 hours after Vos was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a student at the school from September 2005 until March 2007. Vos' wife, who had left the house after his arrest, called police early Monday morning after finding him hanging in the home. An investigation into the assault showed Vos and the student had four encounters and had "agreed to trade sex for beer and cigarettes." A letter from Gregory P. Guarrine, superintendent of Prospect Heights School District 23 regarding Vos' arrest can be read here [PDF]. more ›

Two men were sentenced to two years probation today for raping a 14-year-old girl. Tony Pacheco (left), 17 at the time of the 2006 crime, and Angel Alverio (right), then 18, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count each of aggravated battery and criminal sexual abuse. The were sentenced to 24 months probation and both have to register as sex offenders for 10 years. more ›

Anthony Overton, a podiatrist from Olympia Fields, was found guilty today of sexual assault for conducting a vaginal and rectal exam on a patient, then 75, who had a sprained ankle. Overton maintained during his bench trial that he did nothing wrong, and that he frequently conducted such exams to check for other conditions. more ›

Felipe Rivera of Cicero has been charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault, sexual assault, aggravated battery and a hate crime for allegedly beating, raping and sodomizing a man. Rivera and the victim met at a party on 1200 block of South 50th Avenue, and Rivera thought the victim winked at him. more ›

It wasn't your imagination. There really were extra problems on Lake Shore Drive this morning, with 20 vehicles damaged and 3 people injured. Stupid potholes. Now it's even more convenient for the City to take your money! New robot kiosks now accept payments for your parking tickets, water bills and red-light tickets. An update to this morning's story about the 4-year-old who was shot and killed: her brother has been charged, as a juvenile,... more ›