Chicago IL

A week after federal agents arrested dozens of people during a military-style immigration raid of a South Shore apartment building, resident Cassandra Murray slowly inches down four flights of stairs because the elevators are broken again. Murray is disabled and walks with a limp. The 55-year-old wears plastic gloves...

CHICAGO — A man is facing multiple charges after allegedly battering multiple women and a police officer in Evanston. Derek Rucker, 37, of Blue Island, was taken into custody Thursday just before 11:10 a.m. in the 0-100 block of East Grand Avenue. He allegedly struck a 44-year-old woman in the face, which caused her...

Democratic Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has sparked debate after describing Chicago’s recent summer as “truly an amazing summer” during a Thursday appearance on the podcast Pod Save America, even as the city tallied 123 murders between June, July, and August, according to an analysis by WBEZ Chicago.

In early September, Kellen McMiller took part in a roundtable discussion with Gov. JB Pritzker at an event for anti-violence workers on the South Side. McMiller, 35, even posed for a photo with the governor in his neon yellow peacekeeper vest. The photo would later appear in a press release touting how violence...

CHICAGO - A cellphone video shows several federal agents chasing a man in the parking lot of a Home Depot in Chicago’s south suburbs. The video, taken Tuesday outside the Home Depot at 95th Street and Ridgeland Avenue in Chicago Ridge, shows federal agents speaking with two people before one of them suddenly takes...

One of the serial attackers who has punched women across the city of Chicago was in court Friday facing six felony charges in five attacks over the past few weeks.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducted a sweep at a parking lot used by rideshare drivers on Friday, steps from O'Hare Airport. Federal agents were present twice in the "Alpha" lot, a designated spot for rideshare drivers, with the most recent time being around 2:15 p.m. Agents were asking drivers if...

A longtime TV news produced at Chicago-based station WGN on Friday was forcefully pinned to the ground and then hauled off in an unmarked van by masked federal agents. As reported by the Chicago Tribune , WGN producer Debbie Brockman was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a law...

"People are fleeing because they can't get reservations at the restaurants."

A judge granted a request from federal prosecutors to drop charges against a man arrested during protests outside the Broadview ICE facility.