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Officer in fatal police shooting says he believed teen had shot at him from stolen Jaguar

August 9, 2019 at 7:54 p.m.

A Chicago police officer who fatally shot a black teen in a South Side backyard in 2016 testified Friday he believed the male had fired at him moments earlier during...

Chicago police investigate the police-involved fatal shooting of 18-year-old Paul O'Neal in the 7300 block of South Merrill Avenue in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood on July 29, 2016.

Chicago cop testifies at hearing into fatal police shooting of black teen: ‘He’s got to be stopped’

August 9, 2019 at 7:01 a.m.

Chicago police Officer Michael Coughlin Jr., fighting to keep his job, testified Thursday at a Police Board hearing that he fired off nine shots at a driver fleeing in a...

Familiares y amigos cargan el ataúd de Marlen Ochoa-López durante su funeral en Mount Auburn Funeral Home en Stickney, Illinois, el 25 de mayo de 2019.

“Te sientes impotente”: Los padres de Marlen Ochoa-López hablan sobre su pánico, desesperación y dolor mientras buscaban en vano a la adolescente embarazada

July 31, 2019 at 3:38 p.m.

"Está muerta". Eso es todo lo que el agente de policía le dijo a la familia de Marlen Ochoa-López tres semanas después de la desaparición de la adolescente embarazada. Tres...

Marlen Ochoa-Lopez's father, Arnulfo Ochoa, is comforted by a friend at a nail salon in Little Village on May 22, 2019.

‘You feel powerless’: Marlen Ochoa-Lopez’s parents talk about their panic, despair and grief as they searched in vain for the pregnant teen

July 31, 2019 at 3:58 p.m.

"Está muerta." She's dead. That's all the police officer said to the family of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, three weeks after the pregnant teen went missing. Three weeks of hope, then dread,...

Members of the Illinois Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 178th Infantry Regiment stand in formation at General Richard L. Jones Armory in Chicago's Washington Park prior to the battalion's departure on July 28, 2019, to Fort Bliss, Texas, for training.

Chicago-area families bid farewell to National Guard soldiers heading to Afghanistan: ‘I just want them to get this mission over with and come home’

July 28, 2019 at 6:43 p.m.

Chicago resident Brenda Velasco knew in a heartbeat that she wanted to join the hundreds of Illinois Army National Guard soldiers who will spend more than a year in Afghanistan....

U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky enters the Customs and Border Protection office at O'Hare International Airport, where she sought information about why three girls were held after arriving from Mexico on July 18, 2019.

After 3 children who are U.S. citizens were detained at O’Hare, Illinois lawmakers are pressing border patrol for answers

July 26, 2019 at 7:36 p.m.

Seven Democratic members of Congress from the Chicago area have sent a letter to the head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, seeking information on how many U.S. citizen children...

Man seriously injured in flash fire at Far South Side gas station

July 26, 2019 at 11:47 a.m.

A worker was seriously injured in a flash fire Friday morning at a gas station on the Far South Side, according to the Chicago Fire Department. Before 10 a.m., a...

Jonathan Logemann throws daughter Eleanor, 3, into the air at their Rockford home on July 17, 2019.

Hundreds of Illinois National Guard members set to deploy this weekend for Afghanistan — the largest call-up in a decade

July 26, 2019 at 6:01 p.m.

On a recent morning, Terry O'Neill's 4-year-son TJ posed a question out of the blue that seemed to signal he realized their lives were about to change. "'Daddy, are you...

Three girls were detained inside the U.S. Customs and Border Protection office on July 18, 2019. They were released after being held for hours at O'Hare International Airport.

35 arrested nationwide in last week’s ICE raids, but ‘ongoing’ campaign could create permanent culture of fear in immigrant communities

March 11, 2024 at 2:09 p.m.

For weeks, immigrants in Chicago and across the country found their lives upended as the Trump administration threatened a stepped-up enforcement campaign to deport thousands of people. Mass arrests didn't...

Joselyn, 9, left, appears July 19 with her parents and sisters, a day after she and her sisters were detained for more than 12 hours at O'Hare International Airport.

Children held by border protection at O’Hare were to be placed in DCFS custody

July 20, 2019 at 8:17 a.m.

An immigrant mother whose three daughters were held by border protection officers at O'Hare said she rushed to the airport to pick up the girls after she was told they...

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