In a predominantly Black area of Chicago, police can now directly file gun charges without a prosecutor’s approval. The new ...

The city says it paid $700,000 for a “law enforcement search engine” from the maker of ShotSpotter. But are police using it? No one will say.

Sheriff's deputies took the weapon, quickly identified the officer it belonged to — who was still in the courthouse — and ...

Officers encountered a suspect, which resulted in a foot chase and an exchange of gunfire at multiple nearby locations, ...

A Chicago police officer's gun was found unattended in a bathroom at the Cook County George N. Leighton Criminal Courthouse Thursday, officials said.

Body camera footage of the police shooting of a burglary suspect on Chicago’s West Side last month was released.

A Chicago police officer's gun was found unattended in a courthouse bathroom Thursday morning, prompting an internal investigation, authorities said.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago police officer's gun was found unattended in a bathroom at the Cook County courthouse on Thursday. The incident happened around 10 a.m. at the George N. Leighton ...

Crespin, 22, faces felony charges of attempted second-degree murder and aggravated driving under the influence, authorities say.

CHICAGO – A 22-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder of a Chicago police officer after he hit the officer with his vehicle while driving under the influence late Saturday night.

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times file Share Weeks after Chicago’s police oversight chief learned she was facing a vote that could’ve led to her firing, she sent a scathing letter accusing a ...

Police are probing a shooting that left a 25-year-old man shot on the street outside Chicago O'Hare International Airport in the early hours of Wednesday morning. A spokesperson for the Chicago ...