Board Sustains Four Complaints Against Chicago Officers In First Quarter
In the first three months of this year, the board charged with reviewing police officer complaints closed 115 cases and found that four of cases were sustained.
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In the first three months of this year, the board charged with reviewing police officer complaints closed 115 cases and found that four of cases were sustained.
The Independent Police Review Authority on Friday will release video and audio recordings--all related to shootings and other incidents involving Chicago Police officers.
Video, audio recordings and documents relating to Chicago police-involved shootings are set to be released Friday. CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot reports.
The police SUV and four-door car crashed about 10 p.m. in the 7600 block of South Halsted Street, according to Chicago Police.
The Emanuel administration has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by two Chicago police officers who claimed they were victims of retaliation after blowing the whistle on corruption. The deal spares the mayor from possibly having to testify about a "code of silence" within the department.
Chicago suffered through an especially bloody holiday weekend, with 69 people shot over the Memorial Day weekend, including six fatalities. Police said the vast majority of the victims were on a watchlist of sorts – what the department calls its "strategic subject list."
By comparison, 55 people were shot, 12 fatally, in Memorial Day weekend shootings in 2015.
Barely halfway into the Memorial Day weekend, nearly as many people have been shot across Chicago as the entire holiday weekend last year, with police promising to step up patrols even further.
Chicago Police officers made an unusual rescue Saturday morning on the Northwest Side.
CBS 2's Pam Zekman has this follow-up to a 2 Investigators, Better Government Association report.
Off-duty CPD officers saw 32-year-old Jovany Flores "inside a vehicle that did not belong to him" at 11:28 p.m. in the 2300 block of West Wolfram, according to a statement from Chicago Police. When the officers identified themselves, Flores "became upset and irritated" and began to fight them, police said.
Officer Morsi Murphy called in a bogus robbery report and once arrested a woman for picking up legal prescription drugs from Walgreens. CBS 2's Dave Savini reports.
Police said, around 12:30 a.m., two officers in an unmarked squad car were driving east near Peterson and Washtenaw avenues, when a man on a bicycle began shouting gang slogans at them.
Chantell Brooks watched the video with Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson. CBS 2's Derrick Blakley reports.
Two Chicago Police officers are being credited with saving a woman's life early Sunday in the Belmont Gardens neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Three Chicago police officers were shot in March by a man armed with a gun that has been traced to a former cop. Now we're learning how that gun fell into the wrong hands.
A man claims in a federal lawsuit a Chicago police officer threatened to use a Taser on him last year while he held his 1-year-old son in his arms — and warned him his son would feel the electricity.
A retired Chicago Police officer who barricaded herself inside a South Shore neighborhood home Tuesday evening came out peacefully after meeting with CPD Supt. Eddie Johnson, police said.
A 40-year-old Chicago Police officer has been charged with official misconduct, accused of beating a handcuffed patient at Jackson Park Hospital two years ago.
Dante Servin, the Chicago police officer acquitted of criminal charges in the shooting death of 22-year-old Rekia Boyd, has resigned his position just days before a disciplinary hearing that could have resulted in his dismissal.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel isn't offering specifics yet, but he says a new agency that will replace the much-criticized Independent Police Review Authority will have citizen involvement and will put the police department and the city in a better place, reports WBBM's Mike Krauser.
Mayor Emanuel will propose abolishing the city's troubled Independent Police Review Authority.
A Chicago mother says police had no right to shoot and kill her son three years ago, so now she's suing.
Wielding a shiny chrome handgun before a federal jury Monday, a lawyer for three Chicago cops being sued over a March 2012 shooting left little to the imagination.
A person was shot by Chicago Police following a bank robbery Monday morning in the Southwest Side Archer Heights neighborhood.
The lawsuit accuses the university of hiring temporary contractors to cross the picket line and do the strikers' work.
The lawsuit filed by Ramco Holdings is seeking to recover more than $24 million in unpaid rent from Resilience Healthcare.
Classes at the Oakton College campus in northwest suburban Des Plaines have been forced to move online through Thursday, due to flooding on campus.
A former Chicago medical supply company owner has returned to the U.S. to face charges accusing him of taking part in a $15 million embezzlement scheme at Loretto Hospital.
The first class of dogs in the program graduated on Wednesday.
Will Chicago see another surge in immigration raids like last year's Operation Midway Blitz? That was a topic on Capitol Hill as Chicagoans testified at a congressional hearing about their encounters with Border Patrol and ICE agents.
About half of Iran's stockpile of ballistic missiles and its associated launch systems were still intact as of the start of the ceasefire in early April, officials said.
In the legal venue of anti-trust enforcement, the state is not taking on the Trump administration, but rather filling a void that state officials say the Trump administration has vacated.
Illinois House Democrats have advanced their latest proposed legislation aimed at helping the Chicago Bears move to a new domed stadium in Arlington Heights, rather than heading across the state line to Indiana.
A federal grand jury indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on wire and bank fraud-related charges on Tuesday, the Justice Department says, accusing it of paying members of extremist groups as part of its efforts to investigate them.
In the legal venue of anti-trust enforcement, the state is not taking on the Trump administration, but rather filling a void that state officials say the Trump administration has vacated.
A passenger on an American Airlines flight from New York to Chicago has been charged with making a false bomb threat that forced an emergency landing at Detroit Metro Airport last month, according to a federal criminal complaint.
Skyrocketing property taxes continue to be a hot-button issue in Cook County — particularly since last fall, when many residents saw their tax bills increase by 100% or more.
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias this weekend issued a warning about a surge in text messages that falsely claim to come from his office or the DMV within it.
Tenants at a South Loop luxury high-rise that has been plagued with problems like broken elevators are vowing to fight five-day eviction notices.
La Rabida Children's Hospital went all out for Earth Day on Wednesday, with volunteer cleanup efforts by staffers and activities for patients and families.
It has been several weeks since West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, Illinois, abruptly shut down — and then on Wednesday, it just as swiftly partially reopened, with some services available.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says more than 80% of deaths related to pregnancy are preventable, and Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women.
The United States has long struggled with understanding and finding ways to help treat mental illness. A new documentary, which is screening Saturday in Chicago, examines the reality of living with mental illness in America.
Allergy season is here, and the dreaded pollen can trigger sneezing, congestion, wheezing, and shortness of breath.
Trader Joe's is planning to open a new location at the Lincoln Village Shopping Center in Chicago's North Park neighborhood, the office of Ald. Debra Silverstein (50th) recently announced.
The satirical news outlet The Onion has a new plan to take over conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars platforms and turn them into parodies.
Whole Foods will soon be moving into a vacant space in a relatively new commercial building in Chicago's Lakeview community, a local chamber of commerce group said.
Philz Coffee will once again sport the Pride flag at its cafés after a directive to have them and other flags removed created a backlash.
A new restaurant has joined the busy stretch of Halsted Street toward the south end of Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood that is also home to Alinea and Boka.
The satirical news outlet The Onion has a new plan to take over conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars platforms and turn them into parodies.
Emily Saliers, one-half of the Atlanta folk duo The Indigo Girls, has revealed that she has been diagnosed with two incurable movement disorders that will forever change the way that she sings.
Blues icon and world music pioneer Taj Mahal will be headlining the Chicago Blues Festival this June.
The United States has long struggled with understanding and finding ways to help treat mental illness. A new documentary, which is screening Saturday in Chicago, examines the reality of living with mental illness in America.
Afrika Bambaataa, a rapper and producer, was best known for breakthrough tracks like 1982's "Planet Rock" and for founding the Universal Zulu Nation art collective.
Denny Hamlin, Ryan Blaney, and defending Cup Series champion Kyle Larson were speeding around Chicagoland Speedway doing tire testing, ahead of NASCAR's return during the July 4th weekend.
The union is asking for a judge to bar the university from hiring temporary workers.
The suit also claims Resilience CEO Manoj Prasad misappropriated a state loan worth $10 million.
Will Chicago see another surge in immigration raids like last year's Operation Midway Blitz? That was a topic on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, as two Chicagoans testified before the House Homeland Security Committee about their encounters with Border Patrol and ICE agents.
Illinois House Democrats have advanced their latest proposed legislation aimed at helping the Chicago Bears move to a new domed stadium in Arlington Heights, rather than heading across the state line to Indiana.
The families of four children and a teenager killed in a crash when a woman drove into an after-school program in downstate Illinois have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver and the day camp.
Four people were shot, one of them killed, on Wednesday afternoon in the Little Village neighborhood.
Illinois House Democrats have advanced their latest proposed legislation aimed at helping the Chicago Bears move to a new domed stadium in Arlington Heights.
The lawsuit accuses the university of hiring temporary contractors to cross the picket line and do the strikers' work.
Severe weather season has been off to a very active start in Illinois, with everything from flooding, hail, and damaging winds – and more than 100 tornadoes statewide.
Residents in one part of Chicago's Noble Square neighborhood say they've been dealing with cars careening off the Kennedy Expressway and crashing into their front yard for decades, and the state won't help.
Madeline Morgan said she was repeatedly stalked and abused, even though the man responsible was forced to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet, which was cut off.
Chicago deals with the worst traffic congestion in the U.S., according to the 2025 Global Traffic Scorecard from INRIX, a transportation analytics company.
A specially designed playground in the West Pullman neighborhood is making a difference, addressing flooding and the impact of climate change across Chicago.
A tree planting initiative has kicked off in Chatham, among the Chicago neighborhoods most plagued by flooding, to help with the persistent problem.
A crew of drivers made a pit stop in Joliet, as the track prepares for its first competitive race since 2019.
Rookie Munetaka Murakami homered for the fourth straight game, Sean Burke won for the first time in 17 appearances, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 11-5 on Tuesday night.
Chicago has outscored opponents 51-18 during its winning streak, the team's longest since an eight-game run in July 2023.
With four picks in the first three rounds of the NFL Draft this weekend, the Chicago Bears are expected to try to shore up their defense, particularly their pass rush, in an effort to build a consistent playoff contender.
Chicago Bulls head coach Billy Donovan is leaving, the team announced Tuesday.
Cook County Crime Stoppers will be canvassing Tuesday in search of answers in the hit-and-run that killed 15-year-old Violet Harris in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood last month.
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with robbing a woman on a CTA Blue Line train on Chicago's Northwest Side, Chicago police said Tuesday.
The FBI on Tuesday announced a reward of $50,000 for the arrest and conviction of a man wanted in the 2021 shooting death of a National Guard member.
Mexico's security officials said a gunman opened fired at the popular tourist spot, killing a Canadian woman and injuring at least 13 people, including six Americans.
D4vd, whose real name is David Burke, is charged with first-degree murder with special circumstances, lewd and lascivious acts with an individual under 14 and mutilating a body.
