Sophie Sherry is a Wire Desk Reporter at various prominent media outlets. She specializes in law and legal affairs, focusing on litigation, crime and justice, and the judicial system, with particular attention to court proceedings, legal reform, and lawsuits. Sophie has been featured in Fox 32 Chicago, NBC Chicago, and several other respected platforms including Chicago Public Media and the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Sophie Sherry's coverage focuses primarily on local news, particularly evolving and breaking crime stories in the Chicago area. She also covers topics related to city council resolutions and street violence.
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By: Sophie Sherry
The recommendation to suspend Terry Hillard's son for as long as a month was wiped out after then-police Supt. Larry Snelling intervened in the case. Meanwhile, the younger Hillard faces potential dismissal for allegedly getting more than $18,000 in fraudulent PPP loans, records show.
By: Sophie Sherry
The cases seeking Officer Joseph Vecchio's dismissal relate to broader allegations that a notorious downtown tactical unit had a pattern of conducting improper traffic stops.
By: Sophie Sherry
Officer Joseph Vecchio was arrested Friday, just a day after the Chicago Police Board announced that he's facing dismissal in two separate disciplinary cases.
By: Sophie Sherry
Keshia Golden has said she acted in self defense when she stabbed Calvin Sidney. Prosecutors are now expected to offer a deal that would reduce a first-degree murder charge to involuntary manslaughter.
By: Jon Seidel, Sophie Sherry, Tom Schuba
The unit, staffed with experienced detectives, is tasked with probing police shootings in Chicago. Nearly a year after Operation Midway Blitz began, no federal agent has been charged with an on-duty crime.
By: David Struett, Keenan Chen, Sophie Sherry
Rontonio Guterz, 35, was shot to death during a gathering of former residents of the Robert Taylor Homes, his sister said. Fourteen other people were wounded in the attack late Saturday night in Washington Park.
By: Sophie Sherry
Fans have mostly been charged with battery and trespassing, the Sun-Times found. One man ran onto both Wrigley and Rate fields, in one case holding a sign that read “Jesus is Lord.” Another man started a brawl outside of a Sox game after he was caught urinating on a car.
By: Alma Campos, Sophie Sherry, Jon Seidel
Little about the case has been revealed since Villegas González was fatally shot by an immigration agent in Franklin Park on Sept. 12, 2025 — four days after the Trump administration launched Operation Midway Blitz. Since then, his supporters have been left to grapple with painful, unanswered questions.
By: Sophie Sherry
Judge John F. Lyke Jr. had ordered the deputies to remove the defendant's handcuffs so he could hug his family. The union representing the deputies defended their actions, saying Lyke's “disrespectful and inappropriate treatment of our staff is completely unacceptable.”
By: Sophie Sherry, Fran Spielman
As of last winter, lawsuits targeting Reynaldo Guevara already cost the city and county at least $80 million. In February, City Council approved another $29.2 million linked to allegations of his police misconduct.
