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A downtown alderman is urging Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling to immediately shut down a Gold Coast nightclub after an overnight shooting left four people injured on the Division Street nightlife strip early Friday. “Reports indicate that the shooters were targeting a particular individual or group of individuals...

A 21-year-old man who was on electronic monitoring for a gun case when his accomplice was killed during a failed robbery attempt at a South Side gas station has been sentenced to four years in prison. Judge Stanley Sacks handed down the sentence to Tommery Moore, who received three years...

Peacock's new crime series Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy is a dramatization of the true story and crimes of its subject. An Illinois-based serial killer operating in the 1970s, Gacy really did murder at least 33 young men, then buried many of them in the crawlspace of his home in Norwood Park Township, near...

BROADVIEW — For the past two weeks, some of Chicago Genius’ bravest 5’6” to 5’9” reporters have been embedded undercover within ICE patrols deployed across our city, to bring you stories from the front lines of this unprecedented federal overreach. From Broadview, the suburban location of ICE’s controversial...

Four people were wounded in a drive-by shooting in the Gold Coast Friday morning, Chicago police said.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — A shocking video captured inside a Walgreens store on Chicago’s North Side has sparked public outrage after an ICE agent chased and tackled a man in front of his family, as bystanders screamed that the victim was a U.S. citizen. The footage, first posted to...

A 19-year-old man who teamed up with a 13-year-old boy to carjack a driver near Goose Island has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Prosecutors said Keondre Pitts had two carjacking cases pending in juvenile court when he and the 13-year-old carjacked a man at gunpoint on October 9, 2024.

Police are investigating a drive-by shooting that injured four people outside a bar on Chicago's Near North Side early Friday morning.

Thousands of people are expected to gather for a "No Kings" protest in Chicago's Grant Park Saturday afternoon.

Ald. Jessie Fuentes, 26th Ward, joins Lisa Dent to discuss her first-hand account of being arrested by federal ICE agents. On October 3rd, Alderperson Fuentes was arrested by federal ICE agents in a hospital after they detained a man. She asked the agents if they had a warrant, advocating that the detained man had...