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A Chicago police officer and a teenager were shot and wounded while the officer was trying to disarm the boy in the 5600 block of South Shields Avenue in Englewood, Oct. 3, 2024. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

CPD officer, teen shot in Englewood neighborhood, police say

October 3, 2024 at 6:14 p.m.

A Chicago police officer and a teenage boy appeared to have been struck by the same "inadvertent" gunshot that was fired as the officer took a handgun from the boy...

Lakisha Jackson's brother, Kevin Jackson, is among about a dozen people fighting for their convictions to be overturned, alleging misconduct on behalf of retired CPD officer Brian Forberg. She is seen on Dec. 15, 2023. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Appeals court hears potential wrongful conviction case following special prosecutors’ report

October 1, 2024 at 4:16 p.m.

A panel of Illinois Appellate Court judges Tuesday heard arguments in the case of Kevin Jackson, a man seeking release from prison more than two decades after he was found...

Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling, center, monitors pro-Palestinian protesters at a rally in Union Park ahead of the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 19, 2024. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

After an eventful year as police superintendent, Larry Snelling makes it clear it’s not about him

September 26, 2024 at 5:37 p.m.

A year has passed since Larry Snelling was unanimously approved as CPD superintendent. With a busy year under his belt and the DNC in the rear-view mirror, he keeps looking...

Andrea Kersten, chief administrator of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, addresses attendees at a Chicago Police Board meeting on April 18, 2024. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Onetime COPA supervisor slams agency leadership in whistleblower lawsuit

September 16, 2024 at 4:49 p.m.

A former supervisor with the Civilian Office of Police Accountability has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the city, alleging that he was fired last month after raising concerns of anti-police...

Former Chicago police Officer Carlos Yanez Jr. is consoled by loved ones, including his father, Carlos Yanez Sr., second from right, while speaking after the sentencing of Emonte Morgan in the killing of Yanez Jr.’s partner, Officer Ella French. The sentencing took place at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. French was killed in August 2021. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Man convicted of killing Officer Ella French and wounding her partner is sentenced to life in prison

September 11, 2024 at 7:00 p.m.

A judge sentenced a man to life in prison Wednesday for shooting and killing Chicago police Officer Ella French and injuring her partner, marking an emotional end to the case...

Chicago Police Department Deputy Chief Roberto Nieves speaks during the St. Jude Police Memorial March on May 7, 2023, at Gold Star Families Memorial and Park on the Museum Campus. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

CPD deputy chief, another officer charged with criminal damage to property

September 5, 2024 at 6:16 p.m.

A deputy chief of the Chicago Police Department and another officer were charged with criminal damage to property Thursday for, according to a source with knowledge of the charge, allegedly...

People prepare to march for peace on West Jackson Boulevard in Chicago on June 21, 2024, near the Oakley Square apartment complex where Jai’Mani Amir Rivera was shot and killed. Chicago recorded 186 homicides between June 1 and Aug. 31, data show, compared with 190 homicides in summer 2023. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

City sees modest improvement in violence figures over the summer

September 5, 2024 at 8:18 p.m.

Killings and nonfatal shootings between June and August still outpaced pre-pandemic levels, according to a Tribune review of city violence data.

Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Eugene Wood talks to reporters following the court appearance of Blue Line shooting suspect Rhanni Davis at the Maywood Courthouse on Sept. 4, 2024. Davis is charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of four people on a CTA Blue Line train in Forest Park early Monday. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Alleged Blue Line shooter makes first court appearance, is ordered detained

January 29, 2025 at 12:02 p.m.

The suspect charged in the quadruple homicide on a CTA Blue Line train earlier this week made their initial court appearance in Maywood on Wednesday where a Cook County judge...

A passenger boards as a train car prepares to depart the CTA Blue Line station at Forest Park on Sept. 3, 2024. Four people were shot and killed on a Blue Line train in Forest Park early Monday. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

‘Horrific, heinous, inexplicable’: Charges filed in shooting deaths of four on CTA Blue Line

September 4, 2024 at 12:28 p.m.

Cook County prosecutors have charged one person with murder after four people were shot to death Monday morning at the Forest Park Blue Line station, according to Forest Park police.

Police investigators work inside a CTA Blue Line train parked at the Forest Park station on Sept. 2, 2024. Four passengers were fatally shot between the Austin and Forest Park stations early Monday, police say. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

4 killed in shooting on CTA Blue Line train in Forest Park

September 3, 2024 at 3:56 p.m.

Forest Park police said a suspect was later taken into custody on the Pink Line by Chicago police officers and that a weapon was recovered.

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