Just a few months ago, the Chicago police department was regarded as America’s laboratory of police science. As the country’s most violent big city struggled to contain an epidemic of deadly ...

A man walked into a Chicago Police Department station looking for a job, but prosecutors said details he revealed during his interview led them to connecting him and his brother to a nearly decade-old ...

Chicago remains plagued by gang violence, high-powered weapons and open hostility toward police. Yet, when an officer-involved shooting occurs, public discourse often ignores the exhaustion imposed on ...

Ald. Gilbert Villegas plans to invoke a rarely used rule at Wednesday’s Chicago City Council meeting to force representatives ...

The team charged with overseeing the federal consent decree — set in place in 2019 — found the department made “significant ...

Some officers were directed to inform the Department of Homeland Security about arrests involving suspected associates of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in October 2023. Mayor Johnson's office ...