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CHICAGO — Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling held a news conference Monday afternoon. The news conference was set to start at 1 p.m. at police headquarters. It follows a weekend of activity that was part of Operation Midway Blitz, including an incident in which a woman was shot after allegedly attempting to...

A Cicero man is facing felony charges after police say he was caught burglarizing Chicago Police Department squad cars and Chicago Fire Department vehicles inside the city’s motor vehicle maintenance yard in Fuller Park. Andres Estrada, 26, was arrested shortly after midnight on Monday, September 29, when security...

CHICAGO - Two people were wounded in a shooting Sunday night in the Hegewisch neighborhood and a suspect was taken into custody, Chicago police said. Officers responded around 9:15 p.m. to the 13500 block of South Avenue N and found a 62-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman who had been shot inside a garage,...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed a new executive order, establishing ICE-free zones on city property.

There is growing evidence that city officials knew, or should have known, about dangerous living conditions inside a South Shore apartment building long before federal immigration agents raided it last week. Over the weekend, CWBChicago reported that social media videos posted roughly three weeks before the raid...

Two men who killed a 60-year-old man in an expressway shooting nearly four years ago while they were both on pretrial release for felony gun cases have pleaded guilty. Joshua Concepcion, 22, and Alexis Perez, 20, were sentenced to 15 years and 12 years, respectively, according to court records. Around...

Chaos erupted on a busy street in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood on Friday when a federal agent, reportedly from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), launched a tear gas canister from an SUV outside the Rico Fresh grocery store and in proximity to Funston Elementary School, as bystanders and children were...

Homeowners in some of Chicago's most neglected neighborhoods are now bracing for tax hikes, amid fresh interest from investors.

Karen Dobner is more determined than ever to protest ICE’s presence in the Chicago area. On Oct. 4, the Oswego resident went to the designated protest area outside the gate of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Broadview for the first time to express her outrage at the agency’s action.

At least 13 people were shot, four of them fatally, Friday into Saturday night in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago. CBS News reported the first two fatal shootings occurred around 7:45 p.m. Friday. After being alerted that someone had been shot, police came to “the 900 block of West 85th Street” and found a man in...