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The mayor of suburban Forest Park said an incident recorded inside his village's police department "should not have happened." Video from late July shows a man, identified by the mayor as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, entering a restricted area of the police station. The mayor confirmed the police chief

CHICAGO - A man accused of slapping a woman aboard a CTA bus on Goose Island and fleeing the scene is being sought by police. The incident happened about 10:12 p.m. July 29 in the 1500 block of North Clybourn Avenue. Chicago police said a woman riding a CTA bus...

The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said 33 of the 56 bodies taken from a shuttered Far South Side funeral home have been identified. They released the names of those whose families have been notified.

The Cook County Sheriff's Office is warning the public of an ongoing phone scam.

LUDLOW, Ill. (WCIA) — A woman from Chicago was pronounced dead Friday morning following a crash on I-57 overnight. The crash happened at 12:48 a.m. near Ludlow. Officials from the Illinois State Police said it involved two vehicles — a semi-truck and a passenger car — and multiple victims were taken to the hospital wit

Adam Saracco, the ICE agent who was charged with misdemeanor battery for pushing lawyer and activist Robert Held to the ground in December 2025 at a gas station in Brookfield, has pleaded guilty. Saracco was sentenced to one year of court supervision on one count of misdemeanor battery on Wednesday,...

Two women found dead in a Bucktown apartment last month died from accidental overdoses of cocaine and fentanyl, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office has determined. Both women worked at Chicago Public Schools, according to online records. Chicago police officers responded to a third-floor apartment in the 2300 blo

She died at home in Chicago, the city that shaped her soul sound.

A Maywood man was found guilty of attempted murder in a shootout with police after the murder of a security guard at a West Side Family Dollar in 2024, according to court documents.

CHICAGO - A man wanted in Georgia on a felony child molestation charge was arrested in Chicago this week after a Cook County Sheriff's Office investigation. Jalynn Montgomery, 25, was wanted by police in Savannah, Georgia in connection with an allegation that he sent an obscene photo of himself to a child.