Three unmarked police cars allegedly pulled up alongside them, and are reported to have pepper sprayed the youngsters.
Tracy Siska | Posted 11.27.2008 | Chicago
For all the bellowing about the fact that more should have been done twenty years ago to stop Burge, nothing is being done to stop the illegal and abusive tactics of today.
Chicago Tribune | Angela Rozas | Posted 11.24.2008 | Chicago
Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis presented the City Council today with a budget that will cut 200 civilian jobs and reorganize top brass, and faced ques...
AP | Mike Robinson | Posted 11.21.2008 | Chicago
Scroll down for video of Mayor Daley's response, the alleged victims speaking out, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald explaining the charges and more ba...
AP | Posted 11.12.2008 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Chicago's police superintendent is denying a news report that officers in his command are working the streets less aggressively out of...
Posted 10.26.2008 | Chicago
Mayor Daley dodged questions about the city's unfulfilled pledge to put more police officers on the street. Taking questions after the opening of an ...
Rob Warden | Posted 10.16.2008 | Chicago
The union that represents Chicago police is advising its members involved in crime scene investigations to refuse to provide samples of their DNA for forensic analysis.
Chicago Tribune | Posted 10.12.2008 | Chicago
A Chicago police officer was bitten Thursday afternoon by a woman during a traffic stop in the West Pullman neighborhood, police said. The incident o...
Chicago Tribune | Carlos Sadovi | Posted 10.09.2008 | Chicago
Chicago Public Schools and Chicago police officials Monday unveiled a series of new and beefed-up measures designed to help cut the numbers of student...
Ray Hanania | Posted 10.09.2008 | Chicago
Clearly Mayor Daley cares about the well-being of Chicago. But does he care enough?
Tracy Siska | Posted 10.03.2008 | Chicago
The decision by Mayor Daley and Police Superintendent Weis to deploy assault weapons on the streets of Chicago has been made without providing a demonstrable need for the weapon.
Monroe Anderson | Posted 09.19.2008 | Chicago
In a quixotic quest for justice, a civil rights group is out to expose America's third-largest city as, according to an attorney, "the torture capital of the world."
Tracy Siska | Posted 09.15.2008 | Chicago
If we as Chicagoans truly want reduced levels of violence in our low-income high-crime neighborhoods then we must be prepared to face the unvarnished truth.
Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 09.14.2008 | Chicago
A 23-year-veteran of the Chicago Police Department died early Thursday after being shot during an apparent robbery attempt Wednesday in the West Side'...
The Huffington Post | Posted 09.11.2008 | Chicago
UPDATE Chicago police will soon be patrolling the streets in Chevy Tahoe SUVs. The department plans to roll out nearly 160 of the SUVs in the next mo...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman and Frank Main | Posted 09.11.2008 | Chicago
Chicago Police officers will no longer be paid overtime to attend monthly beat meetings or community policing functions in a budget-cutting move that,...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics