CPD Officer Rescues Man In Wheelchair From House Fire In Englewood
Flames filled an Englewood home Wednesday morning, and if not for quick action from a Chicago Police officer driving by, one man in a wheelchair said he would not be alive.
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Flames filled an Englewood home Wednesday morning, and if not for quick action from a Chicago Police officer driving by, one man in a wheelchair said he would not be alive.
Jaylin Stiger and Lazerick James were just two innocent teenagers when police threatened to break down their apartment door, handcuffed them, and pointed guns at them. They have now filed suit.
Of 10 recent thefts - some of them violent - that we've tracked in the city's prime shopping districts, there have only been two people arrested. Both of them were minors.
"We found no evidence that the mayor or any current or former city employee took actions with malicious intent to add to Miss Young's mistreatment," retired judge Ann Claire Williams said.
A private network of neighborhood cameras is helping solve crimes in Roscoe Village – and any bit helps with crime rising in the police district into which it falls, as well as across Chicago.
"$2.9 million might seem like a lot, but it will never give Ms. Young back her dignity and respect, and the trust that she's lost," said Ald. Jeanette Taylor (20th).
Four Chicago Police dispatchers were recognized Tuesday for their heroism and bravery in the face of shootings that took the lives of police officers over the past few years.
Santa is bringing smiles to the families of some fallen Chicago police officers -- but they didn't need reindeer for this.
Bond has been denied for an off-duty Chicago police officer accused of killing his child's mother.
An off-duty Chicago Police officer was arrested and charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a woman in the Galewood community this week, police said.
There have been 576 violent crimes on the CTA this year, and just in the past week, CBS 2 has tracked shootings, stabbings, and beatings on CTA trains and buses and at stations. So what is being done to make Chicago's public transit safer?
"Chicago belongs to all of us; but if you come downtown, or anywhere else, to engage in disorderly conduct or crimes, you will be arrested," Police Supt. David Brown said.
The apparent settlement comes moths after settlement talks between Young's attorneys and the city stalled.
A stolen car crashed and went up in flames Tuesday night after a brief chase on DuSable Lake Shore Drive involving Illinois State Police and Chicago Police.
A Chicago Police officer was injured late Tuesday in a fight with a man who was being kicked out the Green Door Tavern in River North.
A Chicago Police officer was shot and wounded Wednesday night in the Calumet Heights community.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday announced that she has directed the city Law Department to drop its lawsuit against the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police over the city's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Two teenage carjacking suspects were arrested in Englewood overnight Monday into Tuesday following a wild police chase.
Chicago Police said a 15-year-old girl was found on Thanksgiving Day after going missing for nearly a week.
Police are warning residents of reports of burglaries in the Englewood neighborhood.
Chicago Police are asking for help locating a missing woman who was last seen on Oct. 28.
Leaders are now promising a stronger joint effort to make safety a priority in and around the University of Chicago campus.
The Chicago Police Department is paying you to get rid of your guns.
Two young men were charged Wednesday in a shooting that killed one armored car guard and critically wounded another – as well as another shooting shortly afterward that left two of their suspected accomplices dead, and the robbery of a cellphone store in between.
