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.

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

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 ...

according to Chicago police. Police say the man was involved in an argument with an unknown male on a sidewalk in the 600 block of North Franklin Street around 3:15 a.m. Sunday. After the ...

Chicago police said another woman has been sexually assaulted in the Logan Square neighborhood on the city’s Northwest Side early Sunday, the fourth such incident in recent weeks. Sunday’s ...