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Chicago police conduct an investigation after a shooting on Wabash Avenue between Madison and Washington streets on Jan. 26, 2024.

2 teenagers shot and killed in ‘ambush’ while leaving Loop high school identified

January 27, 2024 at 9:07 a.m.

Two teenagers leaving their Loop high school were fatally wounded in a midday shooting Friday that startled onlookers under a busy "L" station in the center of the city. Around...

John Catanzara, president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, gives public comment at a meeting of the City Council Committee on Workforce Development, Dec. 7, 2023, at Chicago City Hall.

Chicago aldermen defer police arbitration deal, approve settlements

January 26, 2024 at 1:12 p.m.

Confronted for the second time in as many months with the future of police discipline, aldermen deferred voting on a contract measure to allow officers accused of serious misconduct to...

The family of Carlton Weekly, known as drill rapper FBG Duck, leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, Jan. 17, 2024, after a federal jury found six purported gang members guilty in the murder of the rapper in the Gold Coast neighborhood in 2020.

O-Block gang members convicted in killing of rapper FBG Duck in Gold Coast

January 17, 2024 at 5:35 p.m.

A federal jury Wednesday found six purported gang members guilty of carrying out the brazen 2020 murder of drill rapper FBG Duck in the city's posh Gold Coast neighborhood. The...

Ald. Derrick Curtis, 18th, discusses a map of the existing 8th District while calling to create an additional Chicago police district and new police beats on the city's Southwest Side on Jan. 11, 2024, at the Clearing Branch Library.

Officials call for splitting Chicago police 8th District to better serve residents

January 11, 2024 at 4:09 p.m.

More than a half-dozen local and state officials gathered on the Southwest Side Thursday to call for the Chicago Police Department's Chicago Lawn District (8th) to be split in two...

Police work at the scene near Walton and State streets on Jan. 8, 2024, where a Chicago police officer and suspect were shot following an attempted smash-and-grab robbery at Prada on Oak Street.

Charges filed in shooting of Chicago police officer wounded while responding to Gold Coast burglary

January 10, 2024 at 5:48 p.m.

A South Side man already wanted by federal authorities was charged Wednesday with shooting a Chicago police officer in the Gold Coast neighborhood after burglarizing a luxury goods store. Deshawn...

Chicago police officers investigate the scene where an officer was shot near Walton and State streets early Monday.

Chicago police officer among 2 shot in Gold Coast

January 8, 2024 at 5:50 p.m.

A Chicago police officer was shot in the leg after responding to a call of a burglary in the Gold Coast neighborhood early Monday, according to police. A suspect was...

Democrat Clayton Harris III arrives with more than 27,000 petition signatures to appear on the March primary election ballot as a candidate for Cook County state's attorney on Nov. 27, 2023.

State’s attorney candidate rips opponent for prosecuting 11-year-old in murder case

January 8, 2024 at 4:06 p.m.

Backers of Cook County state's attorney candidate Clayton Harris III are arguing his opponent's "irresponsible and reckless lack of judgment" in prosecuting a young boy in 1993 gives voters a...

LaSheena Weekly, second from left, marches with others down a sidewalk in the Gold Coast after holding a press conference about the death of her son, Carlton Weekly, 26, who performed under the name FBG Duck. Weekly asked for there to be no retaliation shootings after her son was killed in the downtown location earlier in the week.

After long fits and starts, federal gang conspiracy trial against ‘O-Block’ gang moves to closing arguments

January 5, 2024 at 5:15 p.m.

Prosecutors on Friday presented closing arguments in the racketeering case of six purported gang members charged with carrying out the brazen, broad-daylight murder of drill rapper FBG Duck in the...

Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling leaves police headquarters on Oct. 31, 2023, after charges were announced against shooting suspect William Groves, who was charged with 15 counts of attempted murder.

After police board acquittal, CPD makes renewed push to fire controversial officer

January 5, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Attorneys for Chicago's police superintendent have taken legal action to ask a Cook County judge to reverse a recent Chicago Police Board ruling that cleared a controversial police officer of...

A person watches as officers work the scene where five people were shot during a Father's Day gathering in Wendell Smith Park on the 9900 block of South Princeton Avenue in the Roseland neighborhood on June 18, 2023.

Leadership turnover, officer deaths, robbery spike challenged CPD in 2023

January 1, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

For Mayor Brandon Johnson and new leaders of the Chicago Police Department, the dust has started to settle. After a year of sweeping changes and more controversy, the department enters...

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