Battery Explosion At O'Hare Prompts Emergency Response
A battery inside a checked piece of baggage exploded at O'Hare International Airport on Tuesday, injuring a baggage handler.
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A battery inside a checked piece of baggage exploded at O'Hare International Airport on Tuesday, injuring a baggage handler.
Former Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis discusses his feelings about being moved out and how he thinks his replacement is doing. CBS 2's Walter Jacobson reports.
Police Supt. Garry McCarthy says he has no problem with treating low-level drug cases differently, but he draws the line at decriminalizing marijuana.
Police Supt. Garry McCarthy says he is proud of the way his officers have handled the Occupy Chicago protests still underway in the city.
For the second week in a row, anti-Wall Street protesters marched through downtown, and once again, they were arrested.
Four men, including one who allegedly displayed a gun at police, prompting them to fire shots during a foot chase, are being questioned after the early Friday incident in the Wicker Park neighborhood.
Police are looking for a woman missing since Sunday from the Southwest Side Marquette Park neighborhood.
A former CTA bus driver was acquitted Tuesday on charges that he lied about being beaten up by an off-duty Chicago Police sergeant.
A 16-year-old boy was killed and his mother was critically injured when they were both shot in the head during a home invasion Tuesday morning in the Avondale neighborhood.
Police have issued an alert for residents of the Southwest Side to look out for a car that was involved in a hit-and-run accident a week ago.
A 19-year-old southwest suburban woman has been ticketed after crashing into a police squad car as an officer directed traffic at the scene of a gas leak Saturday afternoon on the Southwest Side.
Police are warning residents to be on the lookout, after a series of attacks on women on the city's West Side.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel got a bit defensive Thursday about the number of police officers he's been able to put on the streets since he took office.
A question that is bedeviling Chicago police is how to assign officers at Chicago Public Schools – where are they needed most? Some cops are being pulled out of school buildings to focus on safety outside the schools.
The man sentenced to 140 years in prison for shooting a former Chicago policeman in 1996 has died behind bars.
A Cook County jury has convicted a 22-year-old reputed gang member of killing a Chicago police officer two years ago.
The jury in the trial of an accused cop killer saw and heard the defendant admitting, very matter-of-factly, that he fired the fatal shots.
The Chicago Police Department just hosted a seminar for officers on identity theft taught by Lifelock – the same company accused of misleading advertising in Illinois and 34 other states.
While he was in office, Mayor Daley and his family used his tax-payer funded security detail for a variety of personal needs, according to a published report.
A former Chicago Police officer has been charged with giving false testimony that led to a woman's conviction on battery charges.
Noxious chemical fumes caused the death of a Chicago police officer, weeks after he breathed in fumes from a cleaning solution at the Morgan Park District police station, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
A man who was shot by police after pointing a gun at officers who were trying to interview him early Tuesday in the Englwood neighborhood has been charged, police said.
A Kane County jury has convicted an Elk Grove Village man of aggravated battery, but acquitted him of attempted murder for trying to run over a Chicago police officer near Elgin two years ago.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel acknowledged Monday that some Chicago Police District stations might be closed as part of his administration's plans to trim the budget and increase the number of beat cops.
Police are hunting for two suspects who stripped off their clothing to avoid being captured after a home invasion in north suburban Evanston.
