Lavelle Schaffer went from sleeping on the train every night to keeping the streets of Chicago safe every day.

City residents and people from the suburbs trickled into the community room of an Englewood church with handguns, shotguns ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — A man was seriously wounded during a shootout near a car with off-duty Chicago police officers inside early ...

An investigation by Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) is underway on Saturday after a man was injured ...

A man is in serious condition and was rushed to a hospital by two off-duty Chicago police officers after he was shot in the ...

Leaders of the city’s police department and its oversight bodies gathered on the Northwest Side Thursday to unveil the ...

A man who ran an illegal gambling operation at a Kettering internet cafe raided in May by local law enforcement was sentenced to time served. Sanjay Natwarbhai Patel, 44, of Naperville, Illinois, in ...

Mourners paid their final respects to a fallen suburban police detective who many described as a humble soul.  Oak Park ...

A wake will begin on Thursday at 10:30 a.m., followed by an 11 a.m. funeral service at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago ...

Giovanni A. Saldivar, 19, was charged with two counts of attempted murder of a police officer, aggravated battery with the use of a firearm, and aggravated discharge of a firearm. Police said that ...

Dexter Reed, 26, was fatally shot by Chicago police officers in March after Reed shot and wounded one of their own during a ...

In 1975, retired Massachusetts State Police Officer Dana Owen survived being shot twice in the head, and he's published a ...