West Side Commander Charged With Aggravated Battery, Stripped Of Police Powers
A Chicago Police commander on the city's West Side has been stripped of his police powers.
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A Chicago Police commander on the city's West Side has been stripped of his police powers.
Officials at the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives said the arrests were the culmination of a crime-fighting strategy called the "Chicago Initiative," involving a combination of federal agents and local police targeting the illegal gun trade.
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said Ferguson tactics in dealing with crowds are exactly what Chicago Police are trying not to do.
A South Side family is angry because police shot their dog and then failed to catch an armed robber even though he was hiding out just feet from where they were standing, reports CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli.
Zecharias Miller, 26, allegedly broke into Soldier Field and set fire to a rug that damaged several suites.
The head of Cook County Jail said she'll find room for any and all fugitives picked up by teams of Chicago police officers and Illinois state troopers in the coming month, and put them in the jail's custody.
A small cadre of reinforcements has arrived for Chicago police, as dozens Illinois State Police troopers have begun their mission of helping track down wanted criminals.
A Chicago Police officer is facing sexual abuse charges after he allegedly kissed and fondled a 9-year-old girl, then threatened her mother.
Two would-be thieves were behind bars Thursday morning, after an off-duty Chicago police officer fired shots at them in the parking lot of a Jewel grocery store in the Oriole Park neighborhood.
Let's be honest: Chicagoans get their bikes stolen more often than Liam Neeson's family members get kidnapped in the Taken franchise. Here are the mistakes bike theft victims make and how to avoid them!
Joey Mathews can still name all five men convicted of killing his father, Chicago Police Officer John Mathews, in Hegewisch 26 years ago, and he's furious one of them has been coaching youth baseball in the same neighborhood, years after finishing his prison sentence.
The Fraternal Order of Police, which filed the injunction Monday in Cook County Circuit Court, claims there is reason to believe the lists are inaccurate and could "unfairly and vexatiously harm" the officers named in them.
Causing little attention, two men in their late-50s entered a West Side medical center on the pretense of wanting to see the dentist. CBS 2's Dorothy Tucker reports.
A former Chicago cop caught up in a "hare-brained" scheme to plant drugs and a gun in a suburban woman's car — a scheme that led to a $375,000 city payout — may soon get his job back.
Police officers and supporters hit the road Sunday morning to honor fallen first responders in Chicago.
McCarthy talked about recent violence in the city saying it's more painful than usual because children are falling victim to it.
Emily Rivera is a student at William Nixon Elementary School at 2121 N. Keller Ave.
If we have to choose whether to devote resources to solving violent crimes or bike thefts, the choice is obvious. With that said, some are wondering why Chicago can't have adequate resources devoted to both.
Police say the investigation into the shooting death of 11-year-old Shamiya Adams is progressing rapidly.
A mistake turned fatal Sunday afternoon on the Dan Ryan Expressway, when a driver cut off an off-duty police officer who was riding a motorcycle.
A Chicago police officer was hospitalized after being hit by a car in the Woodlawn neighborhood last night, reports WBBM's Nancy Harty.
A Brighton Park man is dead after Chicago Police used a stun gun on him Saturday reports WBBM's Nancy Harty.
An 11-year-old girl was killed by a stray bullet as she played with friends Friday night in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
Police Supt. Garry McCarthy became a bit testy Monday during his weekly news conference on gun confiscations, when reporters peppered him with questions about something completely different.
A cab driver was relieved of some personal items – and his cab – this weekend by a strong-armed robber who may have been a cross-dressing man, police said.
