Kailo Harris-Caldwell, 24, charged with attempted murder of 2 CPD officers
A man has been charged in the shootings of two Chicago Police officers outside a West Side hotdog stand Friday.
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A man has been charged in the shootings of two Chicago Police officers outside a West Side hotdog stand Friday.
The Chicago Police Department's program for using confidential and registered informants is shrouded in secrecy and is lacking full accountability.
Black people make up approximately 30% of the city's population, but made up 68% of investigatory stops by police, and 84% of use of force incidents after investigatory stops from Oct. 17, 2017, through Feb. 28, 2020.
A hearing in Washington D.C. Tuesday is focusing on how to better respond to carjackings throughout the country.
The Chicago Police Department will be holding in-person officer entry exams at all City Colleges of Chicago locations throughout March.
Some Chicago Police officers were recovering late Saturday after a crash in Lawndale.
"The medical evidence supports the City and Department's vaccine mandate as a reasonable exercise of contractually recognized management rights," an arbitrator wrote.
Four aldermen used a parliamentary maneuver to delay a final vote on the settlement until the next City Council meeting.
Transparency – it's a key word these days, especially in government, and the recent high profile prison release of former Chicago Police officer Jason Van Dyke raised some concerns. This is because there was no public record of him within the Illinois corrections system.
A jury on Thursday ruled that a man convicted in the 2010 murder of Chicago Police Officer Thomas Wortham IV had been fit to stand trial, after his attorneys argued that he'd had amnesia and did not remember the incident.
13-month-old Dillan Harris was sitting in a stroller as he and his mother waited at a bus stop near 63rd Street and Ellis Avenue on July 11, 2015, when 21-year-old Antoine Watkins jumped the curb while fleeing police, and ran over the toddler.
Following an unusually heated debate, aldermen on Thursday agreed to pay $1.675 million to settle a lawsuit filed by five people who were violently assaulted by police officers at the Brickyard Mall during widespread looting in May 2020, despite no evidence the group was involved in any criminal activity.
The Chicago Police Department's carjacking task force is extending its reach beyond the city. With more resources, it's heading to the suburbs and even across state lines.
The City Council Finance Committee on Thursday will vote on a $1.675 million payout to Mia Wright, who was left blind in one eye after being dragged from her car in the parking lot of the Brickyard Mall on May 31, 2020.
A Chicago Police officer who nearly four years ago bragged on camera about killing someone while taunting an innocent Black man in a park has now been relieved of his police powers over a new and separate complaint.
Six people injured in a late night crash on DuSable Lake Shore Drive at Monroe Street.
Jermaine Myles died seven years after he was shot and paralyzed. At the time, his assailant went to prison for the shooting. But the victim died, and his family says that now makes it murder.
A man was arrested and charged with walking up behind another man and shooting him dead in the street in South Austin last month.
Dozens of kiddos went home Wednesday with new coasts, hats and toys thanks to the Chicago Police Department and Prosecutor's office.
Two Chicago police officers were involved in a crash while trying to follow a vehicle possibly connected to armed robberies.
A Chicago woman has been charged with vandalizing a memorial to fallen Chicago Police Officer Ella French last August.
Chicago Police officers come to the rescue of an injured dog.
Chicago Police Supt. David Brown recommended Sgt. Alex Wolinski be fired, filing disciplinary charges accusing Wolinski of violating several department rules when police raided Young's home in February 2019.
Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke has been released from custody after completing his sentence for the murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
