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Chicago police investigate after a man armed with a knife was shot and killed by officers in the 3000 block of 21st Place, Jan. 3, 2025. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Despite mayor’s call for fewer than 500 homicides this year, 2025 opens with familiar violence

January 8, 2025 at 6:15 a.m.

About a week into the new year, violence in Chicago ticked up slightly, and Mayor Brandon Johnson and Police Department leaders already face headwinds in their efforts to keep the...

Chicago police process a crime scene after a shooting in the 800 block of North Trumbull Avenue on Dec. 26, 2024. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

As 2024 ends, Johnson and Snelling again point to drops in homicides, shootings

December 31, 2024 at 4:04 p.m.

As 2024 nears its end, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Police Superintendent Larry Snelling on Tuesday again highlighted citywide drops in several violent crime categories, asserting that the city’s public...

Chicago police officers work at the scene where a man was fatally shot in the Uptown neighborhood on Oct. 1, 2024. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Downward trend in homicides continues in Chicago, but officials aren’t celebrating

December 29, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Despite recording more than 570 homicides in 2024, Chicago actually saw signs of improvement, with that total marking the third consecutive year the city recorded fewer killings than the one...

A police vehicle at the scene where eight people were shot, three fatally, near the 3500 block of West 59th Street on Dec. 2, 2024, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

With CPD reform seeing only slow progress, bills for consent decree monitor pile up

December 26, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

From 2019 through 2023 — the first five years of the consent decree — the independent monitoring team responsible for assessing compliance billed the city 35% more than was initially...

In a still image from body-worn camera video, Chicago police officers approach Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi after a shootout in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood on Oct. 26, 2024. Abdallahi was shot several times and taken into custody after he allegedly shot an Orthodox Jewish man that morning. He was eventually charged with attempted murder, aggravated discharge of a firearm, hate crime and terrorism. He was later found dead in his jail cell on Nov. 30 from an “apparent suicide attempt.” (Civilian Office of Police Accountability)

COPA releases bodycam of minuteslong West Rogers Park shootout with hate-crime suspect

December 19, 2024 at 4:31 p.m.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability on Thursday released bodyworn camera footage of an October shootout between CPD officers and a suspect in West Rogers Park.

Superintendent Larry Snelling talks with attendees during a Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability public meeting at the Irish American Heritage Center on Dec. 12, 2024, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Chicago police boss, CPD oversight groups outline goals for 2025, including officer wellness

December 13, 2024 at 12:49 p.m.

Leaders of the city’s police department and its oversight bodies gathered on the Northwest Side Thursday to unveil the agencies’ respective goals for 2025.

Chicago rapper Lil Durk gets ready to throw out a ceremonial pitch before the Chicago White Sox face off against the Los Angeles Angels at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago on May 2, 2022. (Jose M. Osorio/baiduhai)

Federal prosecutors link Lil Durk to 2022 Chicago killing as rapper is denied bond in LA

December 13, 2024 at 8:58 a.m.

Newly unsealed court records link Chicago rapper Lil Durk — already facing murder-for-hire charges in Los Angeles — to the fatal 2022 shooting of an alleged gang leader in Chicago....

A police officer with the image of fellow Officer Ella French in his hat at the funeral service for French on Aug. 19, 2021, at St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel. French was fatally shot Aug. 7 and her partner was seriously wounded after a traffic stop in the West Englewood neighborhood. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

‘Hero’ cop from scene of Officer Ella French shooting faces firing

December 10, 2024 at 2:36 p.m.

Chicago police Officer Thomas Raap, once hailed as a hero for conduct at the scene of the killing of a fellow cop and wounding of another, now faces firing.

Lil Durk performs at the Lollapalooza music festival in Grant Park on July 30, 2022, in Chicago. (Raquel Zaldívar/baiduhai)

With detention hearing looming, Lil Durk lawyer says there’s ‘no real evidence’ against artist

December 5, 2024 at 2:51 p.m.

Weeks after he was charged in a cross-country murder-for-hire plot, attorneys for Chicago rapper Lil Durk say the allegations brought by federal prosecutors "are false and lacking in the most...

High-profile police commander tied to troubled Kevin Jackson case

November 25, 2024 at 2:56 p.m.

John Foster has risen through the ranks of the Chicago Police Department, earning praise and promotions, despite ties to the troubled case of Kevin Jackson, who was released from prison...

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