A woman who tried to sell her $300 cellphone to a buyer through Facebook Marketplace became a victim of a terrifying incident when she went to make the transaction on February 1 in Worth, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot put an end to the ability of the Chicago Police Department to work with federal immigration officials.
Surveillance footage appears to show a woman allegedly showing her three-year-old nephew into Lake Michigan off Navy Pier, according to the sources with the Chicago Police Department.
In an interview with Politico on Sunday, Chicago Democrat Congressman Bobby Rush attacked Chicago law enforcement.
It was a tough week for the Chicago Police Department as the organization suffered the loss of five officers in just one week to suicide, and severe injuries on the job, Chicago’s WLS reported.
Ratings for the Fox TV series Empire have just barely improved this week since hitting an all-time low last week after its star, Jussie Smollett, was cleared of felony charges for allegedly faking a hate crime against himself.
A new press release from the National District Attorneys Association calls out Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx for her role in the charges against Jussie Smollett being dropped this week.
The two brothers who allegedly helped orchestrate the hoax hate crime attack against Empire actor Jussie Smollett claim they have “tremendous regret” over their involvement in the incident.
Actor, Jussie Smollett’s defense team put out a statement asserting the fact that Jussie was afforded the “presumption of innocence.”
Jussie Smollett’s “Empire” co-star Gabby Sidibe has expressed her support for the disgraced actor, claiming she still believes that he was the victim of a hate crime despite mounting evidence that he orchestrated it himself.
Jussie Smollett told Robin Roberts he directed police to a security camera he hoped had filmed the “attack.” It was facing the wrong way.
Chicago Mercy Hospital gunman Juan Lopez purchased a number of guns legally during the past five years.
President Trump urged the Chicago police on Monday to implement a “stop and frisk” policy to curb the shootings caused by gun violence in the city.
Chicago police have made no arrests for the weekend’s 70-plus shooting victims as witnesses to the incidents refuse to come forward.
A group of Good Samaritans pulled a Chicago police officer from a police cruiser on Tuesday after he crashed his vehicle into a tree, according to a video of the incident.
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability released a video showing would-be carjackers in a gunfight with an off-duty Chicago police officer.
Hundreds of Chicago police officers descended on City Hall Wednesday, in another sign the relationship between law enforcement and Mayor Rahm Emanuel continues to deteriorate.
Chicago police were called when witnesses said they saw an elderly woman pushing a shopping cart with a dead body inside near the city’s Chatham neighborhood.
A Chicago woman who said she was having a bad day was arrested for attempted murder for pushing a stranger onto the city’s electrified train tracks on Friday.
Chicago police say a home invasion suspect opened fire at home on the city’s Northwest Side and accidentally shot his accomplice in the head, killing him.
A Chicago man was arrested on robbery and gun charges after shooting himself in the hand while trying to rob a rideshare driver, police say.
Applying technology to policing is nothing new, and for some time technologists have been attempting to create computer programs to help police predict and interdict crime. But as far as some District commanders for the Chicago Police are concerned, such predictive software is a potentially important new weapon in the fight against crime.
A new report finds that the Chicago Police Department has a suicide rate 60 percent higher than the national average.
An issue that has become known as the “Ferguson effect” is causing police officers to hesitate and question their judgment in situations where the use of force would be proper. The phenomenon occurred following the justified 2014 police shooting of a black man in Ferguson, Missouri, and the protests and riots afterwards. A new police survey from the Pew Research Center confirms what many media outlets have been reporting–the “Ferguson effect” is real.
The man’s parents reported their son missing Monday and told authorities they later received text messages from people who claimed to be holding him captive.
Chicago police are investigating to find out how 32-year-old Michael Arquero–“a convicted felon and documented gang member”–was able to get a concealed carry permit.
Chicago police say the number of homicides in the city climbed dramatically in January to 51, in the bloodiest start to a year in at least 16 years.
In its first police involved shooting since the Chicago Police Department released dashcam video of the death of teenager Laquan McDonald, police shot and killed two residents–one likely by accident–during a domestic disturbance call on the city’s West Side.
The Chicago Police Department released the after action reports written by the officers involved in the 2014 shooting of an African American teen on Friday, but those accounts differ significantly from the details seen in the dashcam video of the shooting that sparked a week of protests in the Windy City.
A third day of protests descended upon Chicago’s busy downtown Michigan Avenue shopping district, shutting down some stores as protesters barricaded doors arm-in-arm to prevent shoppers from entering or leaving stores on Chicago’s famed “Magnificent Mile.”
Breaking news updates from Breitbart News as Chicago protests rage over video showing the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald:.
Chicago police have reportedly made three arrests–thus far–at demonstrations that broke out Tuesday evening following the release of a video showing the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquon McDonald last October. McDonald was shot 16 times by Officer James Van Dyke, who was recently charged with murder.
A report by the Chicago Sun-Times reveals that the Chicago Police Department started a special program to monitor local African-American groups after the death of Michael Brown and the ensuing riots in Ferguson, Missouri, last year.
As the trial for Bryant Brewer got underway on July 27, Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Brian Sexton said Brewer was “proud he gunned down an officer” in 2010, when he allegedly killed Chicago Police Officer Thor Soderberg.
