The Mendez family is suing the City of Chicago and the Chicago Police Department, accusing officers of violating their civil ...

Downtown Ald. Brian Hopkins told colleagues he would stand down after "working with the superintendent's office" on a ...

The trooper was taken to an area hospital. The extent of the trooper's injuries was not known Wednesday night.

Chicago remains plagued by gang violence, high-powered weapons and open hostility toward police. Yet, when an officer-involved shooting occurs, public discourse often ignores the exhaustion imposed on ...

A suspect was charged with a hate crime for a November attack on two Jewish students who were demonstrating in support of ...

Chakib Mansour Khodja, an Algerian national who lived in Chicago, has been charged with 18 crimes in five cases of sexual ...

Social media posts and text messages claim a large group of teens are expected to gather in downtown Chicago Friday night in ...

Information about homicides is released daily by the city of Chicago. The release of homicide victims’ names is delayed by ...

At least 18 people have been shot, four fatally, in gun violence across Chicago so far this weekend, police said.

Ald. Gilbert Villegas plans to invoke a rarely used rule at Wednesday’s Chicago City Council meeting to force representatives ...

About 9:20 p.m., officers responded to a call of a person shot in the 800 block of West Lill Avenue, near the intersection of Lill and Halsted. When officers arrived, they discovered a 28-year-old man ...

A proposal to give Chicago police the power to enforce temporary curfews for unaccompanied minors during chaotic public events is moving forward, with some growing support—even from those who were ...