Ricky Robertson was riding his bike in Chicago's Washington Heights neighborhood on a warm Wednesday night when someone in a passing car opened fire a...

A federal appellate court unanimously ruled to uphold the 2010 perjury conviction of Jon Burge, maintaining its view that the disgraced former Chicago...

Chicago Police shot and killed a man who allegedly rammed into a cop car as he tried to flee from undercover officers Tuesday night in south suburban ...

While responding to an early morning distress call in Garfield Park Thursday, Chicago police fatally shot a man allegedly armed with a semi-automatic ...

Updated story Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy has a target in his sights: tougher penalties for the city's gun scofflaws. At a Mond...

As of Sunday, a call to 911 call in Chicago won't necessarily result in a police officer on the scene. In an effort to free up police around the ci...

My favorite place in the world is two racially separated sub-cities. I only really know half of this city. I don't know the solution, but I know this is a problem; segregation makes people dumb and segregation enables racism and racism is a worthless poison that has inflicted this country since its birth.

Updated story Roughly 200 Chicago cops will soon be trading paper work for patrols. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Thursday he would shift a port...

Story by Mark Konkol, courtesy of DNAinfo Chicago: It’s getting easier to get away with shooting people in Chicago. Last year, gunmen who shot...

Police have plenty of questions for the mother of a small boy found wandering the streets of Englewood on Chicago's South Side during a bitterly cold ...

Two Chicago police officers filed a federal lawsuit Thursday alleging that high-ranking Chicago Police Department officials blacklisted them after the...

An influential Chicago alderman is proposing that the city's residents pay a new "safety and security fee" to help fund the hiring of 700 new police o...

While yesterday's settlements are a step in the right direction, Chicago and its mayor must deal with outstanding issues before it can truthfully say that it no longer is on the wrong side of the Chicago police torture scandal.

Today, almost exactly 26 years after his arrest, the Finance Committee of the Chicago City Council approved the payment of a $5.375 million settlement to police torture victim Michael Tillman.

A drama is unfolding in Illinois courts that has profound implications for police accountability and governmental transparency. A central issue in this case is whether records related to police misconduct are quintessential public information.

CHICAGO -- Chicago's mayor and police superintendent publicly defended their new gang-fighting strategy Monday amid growing criticism that the changes...

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy promised in late 2011 that the city's new budget would provide for the department to hire more police off...

Chicago's 911 system went down overnight when the city's state-of-the-art response system inexplicably crashed Monday evening. Delores Robinson, a ...

The city of Chicago on Tuesday announced the formation of a new partnership between anti-violence group CeaseFire Illinois and the Chicago Police Depa...

Twenty four hours before the Chicago Police Department launched a day-long gun exchange program, a 14-year-old boy was shot and 13 others were wounded...

While David Kennedy's strategy is unlikely to quickly change the diverse causes of homicides or address non-violent crime, his logic may be wise. As more data come in, Chicago will see if the strategy is enlightened or not.

There are 67 cases in which the Chicago Police collected "evidence" of serious wrongdoing against a person who turned out to be innocent. That's a number to be ashamed of.

Chicago police are offering a $3,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the individual or individuals who vandalized a ...

A pregnant woman whom a Chicago police officer tasered during a parking dispute last week filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Chicago Police Departme...

A pregnant teenager was among at least seven people shot, two of them fatally, in Chicago overnight Tuesday on the heels of a weekend where at least e...