Protesters plan to shut down yet another busy Chicago street, this time it is to be the city’s famed Lake Shore Drive which will be brought to a standstill by protesters marching against the rising violence in the Windy City.
Chicago’s Memorial Day weekend got a brutal start with 23 people shot and four killed from Friday afternoon to Saturday evening. And there are still two more days of the holiday weekend to go.
The Chicago Police Department says a robbery suspect is dead after allegedly approaching a “legal” gun owner, demanding property, and being shot in the head Monday evening.
Police indicate that a concealed carry permit holder shot and critically wounded a robbery suspect on Chicago’s South Side Tuesday morning.
During the opening monologue on Monday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, host Jimmy Kimmel cried over the the Las Vegas attack, pushed for more gun control, bad-mouthed Republicans, but did not say a word about the number of innocents gunned down in Chicago every month.
Two Chicago police officers who took a knee alongside a community activist Sunday are now being reprimanded for their actions after a photo of the incident circulated the Internet.
Chicago’s gun crime is soaring, and the city’s mayor is pushing more gun control as a solution, but Chicago’s homicide was even higher when the city’s handgun ban was in place.
President Trump tweeted on Friday morning that Chicago gun crime has reached “epidemic proportions” so he is “sending in federal help.”
The City of Chicago has become notorious for its appallingly high murder rate, but what many may not know is that the harsh reality of living in Chicago has also taken a toll among the City’s thin blue line as seen in the growing number of police suicides.
Six persons were wounded–two critically–when gunfire erupted at a Chicago memorial for gun victims.
On January 13 President Obama’s Department of Justice announced that the Chicago Police Department is “unconstitutionally engaged” in the use of “excessive” force.
Chicago Police Department officials will not yet confirm if an alleged kidnapping and video-recorded physical attack of a young white man with special needs will be prosecuted as a “hate crime.”
Over 40 people were shot, “11 fatally,” over the Christmas weekend in gun-controlled Chicago.
On Tuesday the Los Angeles Police Commission passed a proposal to give LAPD officers more training before deploying lethal force.
On Friday Chicago Police Department officials proposed limiting when officers can use lethal force against suspects, asking officers to focus instead on ways to “de-escalate” the situation.
A female Chicago police officer who was beaten to the point of hospitalization Wednesday morning says she had the option of lethal force but did not use it for fear of public backlash.
Following Monday’s presidential debate Politifact did a fact-check on Donald Trump’s claim that there have been “thousands of shootings” in gun-controlled Chicago this year alone. On September 27 they published the results of their check by announcing that Trump’s statement was “true.”
A Chicago citizen worried about crime is using his own money to pay for good guys with guns to walk the streets of neighborhoods and preserve safety.
On Sunday, The Guardian reported the Chicago Police Department had made arrests for “under four percent” of the “nearly 2,000 non-fatal shooting incidents” from January 1 through August 28.
As the City of Chicago continues its descent into chaos and violence, a memo from Chicago’s police union is urging officers to refuse overtime shifts during the expected surge in violence over the upcoming Labor Day weekend.
As the nation took to backyard BBQs and paused to celebrate the birth of our nation, the incessant gang warfare in and around the Chicago area continued without a hitch with 37 shootings and six deaths over the three-day weekend. The tragic toll included the death of a 39-year-father and his two young girls in a nearby Chicago suburb.
Grammy-winning Irish singer Sinead O’Connor is apparently alive and “happy” hours after Chicago police received an alert that she planned to commit suicide by jumping off of a bridge.
During the month of May, gun-controlled Chicago witnessed “nearly 400” shot and 66 persons killed.
Three Chicago police officers were wounded in a shootout on the city’s West Side Monday night. A fourth person was killed, police reported.
The gang-affiliated father of the 9-year-old Chicago boy who was murdered execution-style late last year has now been arrested and charged in the shootings of three other people, police say.
Prosecutors have leveled a first-degree murder charge against a Chicago man for the 2015 murder of a nine-year-old boy, allegedly killed because of hatred toward his father’s street gang.
On February 5 Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said “40 percent of…crime guns” in Chicago can be traced back to purchases at gun shows in Indiana, where no background check is required.
On February 4, Chicago Police Department officers discovered five adults and one child stabbed to death in a home in Chicago’s Gage Park.
A survey of dashcam video stored by Chicago Police Department technicians found the bulk of them lacking audio.
Chicago’s interim police superintendent John Escalante is struggling to explain the wild jump in shootings in the Windy City, and he thinks he has at least part of the explanation: it’s social media’s fault.
A top aide to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was physically assaulted while attending a vigil for two people killed by Chicago police officers.
After more than a week of protesters flooding the streets of Chicago over the death of an African-American teen shot by a city police officer over a year ago, the Department of Justice is poised to finally launch a probe into the actions surrounding the shooting.
Roughly 3,000 demonstrators have shut down a large portion of Michigan Avenue in Chicago–the “Magnificent Mile”–in the middle of Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, to protest the shooting of black teenager Laquon McDonald.
The city of Chicago was on edge Tuesday evening as the Chicago Police Department prepared to release a video of the death of 17-year-old Laquan MacDonald, who was shot 16 times by Officer Jason Van Dyke in October last year. The teen was black, the officer white.
On November 2, the Chicago Police Department announced it would not be charging the concealed carry permit holder who intervened and killed an alleged robber who was pointing a gun at a female store employee on Halloween.
