CHICAGO – Two convicted bank robbers were on the run after using a knotted rope or bed sheets to escape from a federal prison window high above downtown Chicago early Tuesday, a week after one ...

A former federal prison guard has been charged with sexually abusing four inmates at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago. Brittany Hall, 31, a correctional officer who was ...

MCC-Chicago is a federal prison facility in downtown Chicago. Correctional officer Brittany Hall was assigned to a unit where female inmates were held, according to the court documents.

A Chicago man was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison Tuesday for inciting and ... on Facebook calling for people to travel to downtown Chicago to engage in property damage and looting.

Project Safe Neighborhoods, led by the U.S. Justice Department, has been in place since 2001 in seven West and South side ...

Inmates at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago could be heard banging on the walls of the federal prison and flashing lights in their cells in solidarity with the ongoing ...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois on Wednesday announced the expansion of its Project Safe ...

(AP) CHICAGO - Authorities say two men being held on bank robbery charges have escaped from a downtown Chicago federal prison. Chicago Police Sgt. Michael Lazarro says their disappearance was ...

Two convicted bank robbers were on the run after using a knotted rope or bed sheets to escape from a federal prison window high above downtown Chicago early Tuesday, a week after one of them made ...