Since the city’s consent decree was entered more than six years ago, the independent monitoring team has often stressed that the Chicago Police Department must bolster its data collection and analysis efforts. How often officers point their weapons and use force, how they are trained, when and where they are deployed are just a few […]
A 25-year-old man was fatally wounded Tuesday morning in a drive-by shooting in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly before 6:45 a.m., the victim was outside in the 700 block of North Spaulding Avenue when a vehicle pulled up and at least one person inside the vehicle opened fire, striking the victim multiple […]
Nurmuhammed Inus of the 2700 block of West Balmoral Avenue was charged with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of Mairunnisa B. Osman, police said.
Investigators worked Tuesday to uncover the motive behind an arson fire over the weekend at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s mansion, the latest act of political violence in the U.S.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office ruled the Sunday stabbing death of Yonangel X. Martinez, 33, a homicide in a Monday autopsy.
A federal prosecutor in New York said Monday that lawyers for music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs are looking for reasons to delay a sex trafficking trial slated to start in three weeks.
When Lake Station police officers responded to a call on April 3, they found Bradley Brooks outside, armed with a black machete. He just threatened to kill his sister. After a tense situation, an officer shot him three times with a less lethal shotgun before he was arrested.
Downers Grove South teacher Christina Formella appeared in court Monday after being charged in connection with criminal sexual assault and aggravated sexual abuse
As Senate Bill 1 — a property tax refund bill that would cut more than $1 billion from schools, libraries and local government — hurtles toward the finish line, Merrillville’s Police Chief is imploring residents to call their state representatives to stop it before it ruins the town’s public safety.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified a woman stabbed to death in Lincoln Square over the weekend as 29-year-old Mairunnisa B. Osman.