witnesses Archives - Chicago Reader

That lockout you witnessed? It didn’t happen.

Ex-cops attempted to throw out a Rogers Park tenant at gunpoint. The police report tells a different story.

Film

Political strife, family drama, bad one-night stands, protest rock, the dark Web, and the Holocaust: all in 30 minutes or less.

Convicted drug dealer Jason Austin, held accountable for killing a cop and social worker, appeals his sentence.

A key witness in the prosecution of west-side drug dealer Jason Austin is sentenced to five and a half years in prison.

Jason Austin is held accountable for the 2008 murders of Robert Soto and Kathryn Romberg.

Day four in the sentencing hearing of convicted west-side drug dealer Jason Austin

Day three in the sentencing hearing of convicted west-side drug dealer Jason Austin

Day two in the sentencing hearing of convicted west-side drug dealer Jason Austin

Federal prosecutors seek a long sentence for Jason Austin, who they say killed a cop and a social worker.

A low-level dealer gets caught between the money and the violence of the heroin trade.

What the case against Vicente Zambada reveals about the federal government’s efforts to take down overseas drug suppliers.

Cook County Board president Toni Preckwinkle seems confused about jurors.