Dispatchers like Debra White provide a calming voice, and a lifeline in a time of need, for the people in Chicago and our ...

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 ...

At a somber ceremony outside Soldier Field, the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation added the name of fallen officer Enrique ...

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 ...

Officer Enrique Martinez, a 26-year-old officer assigned to the Chicago Police Department’s 6th District, was killed during a traffic stop in November 2024 and was posthumously honored by ...

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 ...

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 ...

But the Chicago Police Department receives about 100,000 911 calls each year for something far less urgent: parking violations. As some of Chicago’s first elected police district councilors ...