The independent monitor assessing the city’s compliance with a federal consent decree issued a dire warning Tuesday as proposed budget cuts once again loom over the Chicago Police Department’s Office of Constitutional Policing and Reform.
North Chicago police were called to the 1400 block of Grove Avenue at around 8:10 p.m. Sunday after receiving reports of an accident. Police and firefighters found two SUVs that had crashed.
A trial opened Tuesday for a Hammond man charged in a roadway slaying on 165th Street last year. Trinidad Cervantes, 20, said he feared Rajesh Bhagwandeen, 26, of Hammond, was about to pull out a gun, so he shot him several times first.
Fontanez family has earned induction into the National Blood Donation Hall of Fame.
A man who authorities said was upset over his divorce settlement rammed his car into a crowd of people exercising at a sports complex in southern China, killing 35 and severely injuring dozens of others, police said Tuesday.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced Tuesday that it will prohibit U.S. airlines from flying to Haiti for 30 days after gangs shot two planes and the United Nations will temporarily suspend flights to Port-au-Prince, limiting humanitarian aid coming into the country.
The Palatine Village Council appointed Joe Falkenberg to the District 4 seat recently vacated.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is launching a unit to investigate cases in which new evidence could prove the innocence of people convicted of serious crimes.
A new Louisiana requirement that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public classroom by Jan. 1 was temporarily blocked Tuesday by a federal judge who said the law is “unconstitutional on its face.”
The end of the Pitchfork music fest is more than a dollars-and-cents loss for Chicago. It strikes at our identity.