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A Chicago-area police chief who assaulted a man for filming inside a police station has broken his silence after disturbing bodycam footage was recently released. […] ‘Cut the Camera Off’: Disgraced Chicago-Area Police Chief Blames ‘Human Response’ After Beating Back Man on Video

PALOS TOWNSHIP, Ill. - A suburban Chicago man was charged with attempted murder in connection with the double stabbing of two people in their 70s last month in unincorporated Palos Township. What we know:. Matthew Sokolowski, 34, allegedly stabbed a 72-year-old woman and a 77-year-old man around 9 a.m. on...

A federal judge has ruled that Cook County’s “Tax Sales” violate the constitution, potentially putting the county on the hook for tens of millions of dollars to compensate people who lost their properties after falling behind on property taxes.

A Chicago woman testified Tuesday in Washington, D.C., about her violent arrest by masked federal immigration enforcement agents in October during "Operation Midway Blitz."

The man who Chicago police shot at a downtown Chicago CTA station several year ago took the stand in a civil trial Tuesday.

A man who threatened Chicago police officers with a gun just six days after getting probation in another gun case, prompting the officers to shoot at him, received a sentence of just 2½ years on Tuesday, according to court records. But he is expected to serve little to no time in an actual prison.

A late-night rideshare trip in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood ended with a gun pointed at a driver’s face and a stolen car, and now an 18-year-old man is facing a juvenile charge connected to the April carjacking. Police say the rider pulled a gun on a 47-year-old driver, ordered him out of the vehicle,...

Officials are still trying to identify a man who was found fatally shot in a West Side alley early Tuesday after no one in the neighborhood called 911 to report the gunfire that killed him. The man is the latest shooting victim to go undiscovered in an area that used to be covered by the city’s ShotSpotter network.

A man was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer investigating a stolen vehicle on the North Side Tuesday night, CPD said.

DANVILLE, Ill. (WICS) — Another man has been arrested as a suspect in a fatal shooting that took place at Scooters Bar in Danville. Danville police have apprehended Jontell J. Robinson, a 30-year-old from Chicago, in connection with a fatal shooting at Scooters Bar on Nov. 29, 2025. Robinson was wanted on an...