Chicago IL

CHICAGO — A Chicago police officer is facing criminal charges for allegedly threatening another cop who was scheduled to testify against him in a legal proceeding. Marco Torres, 40, is charged with one count of harassing a witness in connection with threats he allegedly made to a 41-year-old detective last May.

A coordinated law enforcement effort led by the U.S. Marshal Service (USMS) Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force (SERFTF) has resulted in the arrest of Ricardo Gonzales, 32, a suspected high-ranking member of the Venezuelan street gang Tren De Aragua (TDA). Gonzales was apprehended in Cobb County, Georgia,...

CHICAGO — All lanes on the southbound Dan Ryan Expressway have been reopened after they were closed for several hours at 87th Street early Sunday morning following a multi-vehicle fatal crash. Late Sunday morning, Illinois State Police confirmed one fatality in the crash. Larry Merritt, Chicago Fire Department deputy...

Officials continue searching for missing 20-year-old as hazardous river conditions challenge recovery efforts. A quiet outing on the Wisconsin River ended in heartbreak last week, when a Chicago family’s boating trip turned tragic. One man has been confirmed dead, another remains missing, and only one was able to...

CHICAGO — A Lakeview couple is dealing with an absolute nightmare. First, two burglars broke into their home on Friday morning. Then, they learned that the police hadn’t even tried to collect surveillance footage in the area — footage that contains crystal-clear images of two suspects. But the victims have done a lot...

Homelessness in Chicago is a crisis. More housing is needed, and fast, which this page has addressed more than once. But there are few easy answers to the problem in the short run. On the border of Hyde Park and Kenwood, city officials have provided a stark example of what not to do. With next to no notice to the...

CHICAGO - The Chicago Police Department (CPD) has initiated a pilot program allowing officers to file felony gun possession charges without prior approval from the Cook County State's Attorney's Office. Initially launched in January within the 7th (Englewood) District, this program has recently extended to the 5th...

A woman was killed and another person was critically wounded in a shooting Saturday afternoon in Berwyn, Illinois. Police said, around 1:10 p.m., officers responded to a report of shots fired in the 3200 block of Clinton Avenue. When police arrived, they found two people had been shot multiple times. Both victims...

CHICAGO — A concealed carry holder got into a shootout with burglars who were breaking into his SUV in South Shore on Sunday morning, police said. The confrontation ended with the concealed carry holder hospitalized and the burglars in the wind. The 38-year-old CCL holder saw three men breaking...

CHICAGO — The man who randomly stabbed and badly injured a Red Line passenger in Uptown last summer (while on pretrial release for attacking a CTA bus driver) has been given a seven-year prison sentence: five years for the stabbing and two for the earlier case. Trent Prusinski, 24,...