Video captures chaos as NW Side smash-and-grab suspect hits officer with car, leading to...
Video released on Tuesday revealed the chaos Chicago police officers faced while responding to a smash-and-grab burglary on the Northwest Side last month.
‘Can’t stop laughing!’ Mockery abounds as trolling bicyclist evades pursuing feds
The internet cheered a bicyclist who trolled federal agents in Chicago by shouting, "I'm not a U.S. citizen! Come on!" — leading to a chase. In a video obtained by ABC7, a group of U.S. Border Patrol agents walked on Sunday near the 300 block of North Dearborn Street in the Loop. Christopher Sweat, who recorded the...
2 injured in separate shootings a minute apart on West Side
No arrests have been made in either shooting overnight on the West Side.
Retired CPD officer who faked 44 car thefts to beat tickets pleads guilty
A retired Chicago police officer accused of repeatedly filing false auto theft reports to avoid paying traffic fines has pleaded guilty and will serve probation, according to court records. Jeffrey Kriv, 56, pleaded guilty to a single count of theft before Judge Jennifer Coleman last week. In exchange, prosecutors...
Epic Academy honor roll student killed in shooting near school
A 17-year-old honor roll student was killed in a Chicago shooting just a block away from EPIC Academy, where he attended high school.
ICE-led raid at South Shore apartment complex follows Venezuelan gang murder inside
When federal agents led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a South Shore residential building early yesterday, it understandably raised eyebrows. So what was that all about? And why was that particular building targeted?. On Tuesday night, Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) claimed on Twitter that the...
‘The kids are traumatized’: Family displaced after CTA bus is hit by car, crashes...
A Jefferson Park family has been forced out of their home after a CTA bus plowed into earlier this month, leaving the house uninhabitable.
Criminal investigation into masked ICE agent who ‘shot a pepper ball’ into reporter’s truck
The reporter said that she was driving away from an ICE detention center with her window down when a masked agent shot a pepper ball, filling her truck with chemicals
CPD officer’s gun goes off in Near West Side police station
Chicago police said no one was injured when an officer's gun unintentionally went off in a police station in the Near West Side Tuesday morning.
Oak Parker with intellectual disability arrested at ICE facility protest
Paul Ivery, a 26-year-old Oak Park resident, is currently being held in federal custody on charges of felony assault of a federal officer. He was arrested outside the ICE detention facility in Broadview at 6:30 p.m. Saturday Sept. 27 while attending a protest. Oak Park neighbors describe Ivery as “neurodivergent,”...
