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FBI warned Chicago cops of ambush threat over Laquan McDonald video, email shows

May 22, 2019 at 10:00 p.m.

The FBI warned the Chicago Police Department that officers' lives could be in danger with the release of the Laquan McDonald video, according to documents released late Monday night by...

Video releases include police fatal shooting, off-duty Chicago cop’s punches at Portillo’s

May 22, 2019 at 9:56 p.m.

Among videos released Friday by the city was an April 2012 police shooting that left one man dead and two wounded after officers responded to a burglary call at a...

The Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge No. 7 building on May 18, 2016, at 1412 W. Washington Blvd.

Cops traded away pay for protection in police contracts

May 22, 2019 at 9:52 p.m.

From the moment Chicago's Fraternal Order of Police started negotiating its first contract with City Hall 35 years ago, the union identified an issue that would prove key to its...

Illinois' 5th District State Representative Kenneth Dunkin gives a speech at Norman's Bistro in Chicago after losing his seat during the primary election on March 15, 2016.

Madigan-backed Stratton defeats incumbent Dunkin in state House race

May 15, 2019 at 3:30 p.m.

Chalk up a win for Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan in his war with Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner. Madigan-backed Juliana Stratton on Tuesday easily defeated Rauner ally Rep. Ken Dunkin...

The Shrine at 2109-11 S. Wabash Ave. in Chicago was closed by the city after shootings outside the nightclub, complaints from neighbors and the concerns of a top police official.

Shootings finally close The Shrine nightclub

May 22, 2019 at 9:27 p.m.

When the City Council enacted a summary closure ordinance in June 2015, it seemed tailor-made for a nightclub like The Shrine. A string of shootings outside the nightclub over the...

Kim Barker, a former Tribune reporter, said her book "The Taliban Shuffle" being adapted for the big screen ("Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot") is "one of those 15-minute things."

Kim Barker: What it’s like to have Tina Fey play you

June 11, 2018 at 2:37 a.m.

Kim Barker was sitting at a restaurant table with a handful of old baiduhai colleagues, making fun of her eyelashes. Nobody would have noticed but she pointed them out...

Nearly two dozen cops called to testify before grand jury in Laquan McDonald case

June 12, 2018 at 2:58 a.m.

Newly released records show that nearly two dozen Chicago Police Department employees have been called to testify in front of a federal grand jury investigating the Laquan McDonald shooting, including...

Laura De La Fuente holds poster boards filled with photos of her late boyfriend Esau Castellanos, who was shot to death in March 2013 by police who said he fired on them. "I want to know the truth," she said. "I know he had no gun."

FBI investigating another fatal shooting by Chicago police

February 5, 2020 at 7:32 a.m.

The account the two Chicago police officers provided about the fatal shooting of Esau Castellanos came to a dramatic conclusion. After following Castellanos' car as it sped at about 80...

Senior city lawyer quits after judge rules he hid evidence in fatal police shooting

May 22, 2019 at 9:10 p.m.

A veteran attorney in Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration resigned hours after a federal judge ruled Monday that he intentionally concealed crucial evidence in a trial over a fatal Chicago police...

Jondalyn Fields is seen Dec. 2, 2015, in her lawyer's office in Chicago. Her son, Keith MacNeice, died in a crash during a police chase in 2009.

Chicago police video hindered by errors, omissions

June 16, 2018 at 9:17 a.m.

After her teenage son died in a police-chase crash, Jondalyn Fields' lawyers asked the Chicago Police Department for the videos from their cars and along the route to try to...

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