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Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling on Monday defended his department's response to a protest that erupted in Brighton Park over the weekend, after federal agents shot a woman accused of ramming her vehicle into their car.​

CHICAGO - A South Side man has been charged with attempted murder after police say he shot and seriously injured another man he knew this summer. Willie Perkins, 35, was arrested Monday by Chicago police and the U.S. Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force. Authorities said he was identified...

A man was stabbed and choked unconscious Tuesday night after confronting a group of teenagers who stole a wheel from his bicycle on the Bloomingdale Trail in Bucktown, according to a Chicago police report. Around 9 p.m., officers responded to a report of a person stabbed on the trail near...

CHICAGO - A Chicago man and a woman have been charged in connection with a violent robbery involving a 70-year-old woman last month in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. Frank Burrell Jr., 50, and Taysha Stillwell, 39, allegedly stole from a 38-year-old woman at gunpoint on Sept. 13 in the 4700 block of South...

Newly-released video shows a federal agent shoot a reported pastor in the head with a pepper ball during a protest outside the ICE facility in suburban Chicago.

Chicago police are investigating a crash-and-grab burglary on Tuesday morning at a nail salon in the Chatham neighborhood.

Chicago police were searching for multiple suspects who were caught on camera breaking car windows in the city's Hegewisch neighborhood on the Far South Side. Video captured by a Ring doorbell camera showed at least three people who went on a window-smashing and theft spree early Tuesday. "I heard what...

Residents on the Southwest Side of Chicago are demanding U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement not be allowed to use The Yards Plaza.

In recent weeks, Chicago has witnessed a startling escalation in federal immigration enforcement. Federal agents, many attached to the Department of Homeland Security including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, have conducted raids and mass detentions across the city. These operations have...

COLUMN — On Saturday, federal agents shot Marimar “La Maggie” Martinez five to seven times in Brighton Park. Yesterday, she walked out of the hospital—bandaged, limping, but alive—flanked by her lawyer, Christopher Parente, and a crowd chanting her name.