The murder of George Floyd five years ago set off not just protests but full-scale riots around the country, including in ...

Chicago police said the 30-year-old woman was inside a residence when a bullet flew through a window and hit her in the left thigh. She was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A young boy was shot on the city's South Side, Chicago police said. The shooting happened on Saturday at about 11:30 p.m. at a home in the 5000 block of S. East End Avenue in the ...

Traffic stops by Chicago police have more than doubled over the past nine years in what the American Civil Liberties Union, a civil rights group, is calling the “new stop-and-frisk.” ...

Wells was shot in the leg while responding to a domestic disturbance Aug. 5, 2020, in South Lawndale while on duty for the Chicago Police Department. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Share “I am God!” ...

The big chair rests on a museum pedestal ... A few hours earlier, lawmakers in Baton Rouge were hurling biblical passages across the Senate floor before the vote to add high voltage and gassing ...

The Chicago Police officer who struck Chicago Police Board President Ghian Foreman five times on his legs with a baton during a protest that erupted after the police murder of George Floyd should be ...

A Chicago police officer who died after a shootout with a suspect was killed in front of children playing at a school. Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso, 32, was shot several times as he chased an ...

A Chicago police officer has been shot and killed while responding to a call about a person with a firearm, according to the Chicago Police Department. The officer was shot multiple times ...

CHICAGO – The head of the Chicago Police Department and the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois announced their resignations Wednesday, hours after Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot ...

This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Three Chicago police officers ...

The Chicago Police Department held an event over the weekend that paid residents to turn over their guns. The event, held at Saint Ida Church in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood on Saturday ...