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Surviving R. Kelly is a Lifetime documentary series covering the sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and racketeering case against singer Robert Sylvester Kelly, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2022.

The Murders at Starved Rock is a 2021 HBO Max documentary series about the brutal 1960 killings of three women at Starved Rock State Park, Illinois, and the controversial conviction of Chester Weger.

Robert O'Dubaine, a 31-year-old Chicago nightclub owner, was murdered by his girlfriend Catherine Suh and her brother Andrew in a staged robbery on September 25, 1993.

The Starved Rock Murders are a 1960 American triple homicide in which three Chicago women were bludgeoned to death in Starved Rock State Park, Illinois; lodge worker Chester Weger was convicted.

The Chicago Tylenol Murders are an unsolved 1982 product-tampering case in which cyanide-laced Extra Strength Tylenol capsules killed at least seven people across the Chicago area.

Aileen Carol Wuornos, convicted of murdering six men and suspected in a seventh case, was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002, in the United States. The former sex worker claimed self-defense in all her murders, stating she killed in response to rape and attempted rape.

On May 11, 2011, six-year-old Timmothy James Pitzen was withdrawn from his Illinois school by his mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, who claimed a family emergency. Three days later, Amy was found dead from suicide with a note stating the boy was safe but would never be found. More than a decade on, Timmothy remains missing.

John Dillinger, the mastermind behind the Dillinger Gang's string of bank robberies across America, was shot and killed by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934. His death marked the dramatic end to one of the most intense manhunts of the Depression era.

On January 29, 2019, actor Jussie Smollett reported being attacked in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood in what he claimed was a hate crime. Two years later, he was convicted of orchestrating the entire incident himself, enlisting accomplices to stage the assault for publicity.

Between 1972 and 1978, John Wayne Gacy murdered at least 33 young men and boys in suburban Chicago while maintaining a public persona as a friendly clown performer. His arrest in December 1978 exposed one of the most disturbing double lives in criminal history.