No matter what the pundits and the party hacks say, third-party candidates do have a shot at winning, only if the debates were set up to include them.
National Public Radio has hired the lobbying firm Navigators Global, according to disclosure forms filed Thursday. NPR has come under fire from som...
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...
A Chicago police officer was honored at the White House Saturday for his service after fending off two attackers during a robbery attempt. Chicago ...
UPDATE: Since this story was originally posted, at least 9 other people were shot in Chicago. WLS reports that the shootings continued through Sunday ...
I spent the week at the U.N.'s Commission on Population and Development, immersed in conversations about young people. It made me remember Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten as a frame for the week's lessons.
Young people are sophisticated enough to explore and define their values, and make informed decisions that help safeguard their well-being.
A 25-year Chicago Police veteran was believed to have suffered a heart attack while on duty this morning and died after being taken to a downtown hosp...
Chicago's crime rate can sometimes earn the city a bad rap, but for 24 hours Wednesday the city was murder- and shooting-free. Police Superintenden...
Update: The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that police are questioning three suspects in Officer Clifton Lewis' murder Thursday afternoon. Read more h...
As authorities continue their search for the killer of Chicago Police Officer Clifton Lewis, his heartbroken family is making plans for his funeral. ...
CHICAGO — A spokesman for the Fraternal Order of Police says Chicago officers have fatally shot a man at an elevated train stop after he pointed...
Donna Moore says her son was afraid to leave home for almost a year after he and his sister were allegedly attacked by a Chicago police detective upse...
Despite Mayor Rahm Emanuel's highly promoted efforts at concentrating additional police patrols in the city's most dangerous neighborhoods, many crime...
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Thursday offered a glimpse into Mayor Rahm Emanuel's upcoming city budget, which will be introduced ne...
Over the next few months, city and county officials will be mulling tax increases, layoffs, service cuts, and other stopgap measures as they try to pa...
A Chicago police officer has been charged with perjury after fabricating an assault, causing the woman accused to be convicted of battery and miss her...
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy has been tasked with cutting $190 million from the department's $1.3 billion annual budget, and as he has...
A new study on the effectiveness of blue light police cameras found that crime rates do decrease as camera presence increases, but that poor video qua...
An 80-year-old retired police officer says that if he had been armed when four young women carjacked and beat him early Wednesday evening, he "would h...
Police are investigating a bomb threat that was called into Metra police Monday morning. Metra spokesman Tom Miller said a male caller told police ...
The family of a man who died after swallowing drugs during an arrest last summer was awarded a $1.3 million wrongful death settlement Wednesday, with ...
Mayor Rahm Emanuel vowed Wednesday to slash $190 million from the Chicago Police Department's $1.3 billion budget without impacting "the amount of off...
A Chicago Police officer is mourning the loss of his horse, which died while patrolling North Avenue Beach Monday. The retired race horse, which w...
Eight men and one woman were charged with involuntary sexual servitude of a minor and human trafficking Wednesday following an 18-month undercover inv...
