Chicago IL

Chicago police officers skipped the official paperwork on roughly 267,240 traffic stops in 2025, according to new records, leaving a gaping hole in the city’s data on who gets pulled over and why. That works out to about 732 undocumented stops a day and marks nearly a 27% jump from 2024, recharging a heated debate...

What happens when public housing projects, designed to lift families out of poverty, crumble under the weight of poor planning and neglect? Instead of offering security and opportunity, many of these projects became breeding grounds for crime, violence, and decay. Across America, these housing experiments failed so...

A crash left one person dead and three others injured in Marquette Park on Chicago's Southwest Side early Monday.

A security guard working at a River North nightclub died early Monday after a man pushed him down a flight of stairs while he was trying to break up a fight, officials said. A suspect was taken into custody at the scene. CPD said the incident occurred around 1:18 a.m....

A heated confrontation outside a Chicago dance studio has gone viral after a video showed a couple yelling at children and throwing liquid at them as they left a class. The incident reportedly happened near Belmont and Pulaski on Chicago’s Northwest Side. Families were leaving a Mexican folkloric dance class when a...

Police in the north suburbs were investigating after a home invasion in broad daylight, with a suspect posing as a delivery driver and others with masks forcefully entering the home and then holding someone inside at gunpoint. The report comes after at least two other recent home invasions in nearby...

A tense late-night standoff in Bridgeview ended with a 20-year-old man in handcuffs and his family safely outside, after police say he pointed a weapon at his mother and a 13-year-old boy inside a home in the 7800 block of Oketo. A 17-year-old relative escaped the house and walked to the Bridgeview police station to...

LAKEVIEW — Mayor Brandon Johnson defended his administration’s budget priorities at a town hall in Lakeview, arguing the City Council weakened the plan by rejecting new taxes on large corporations and replacing them with revenue measures that could shift costs onto residents. The administration’s proposal sought to...

A 41-year-old man was hospitalized early Monday after being stabbed in Chicago's Avalon Park neighborhood.

A Clarksville, Tennessee man has died after a crash involving a tractor-trailer in Kentucky just after 6 p.m. Saturday evening, according to the Kentucky State Police. Police said a southbound tractor-trailer was making a U-turn to go northbound on Fort Campbell Boulevard when it collided with a northbound vehicle....