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Officers investigate the scene where a 12-year-old boy and 16-year-old boy were shot in the 100 block of South Pulaski near the Legler Regional Library on May 16, 2023, in Chicago.

‘This will not be our normal’ West Garfield Park community condemns shooting of boys outside library

May 18, 2023 at 5:23 p.m.

Two days after a pair of boys were shot outside a Chicago Public Library branch in West Garfield Park, local leaders and anti-violence activists gathered on the library's front steps...

Arne Duncan, center, appears outside an outreach center near where a man was fatally shot on May 17, 2023, at 1050 E. 95th St., in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.

Man, 28, fatally shot outside Roseland outreach center founded by Arne Duncan, police say

May 17, 2023 at 8:05 p.m.

A man who was involved with an anti-violence organization co-founded by Arne Duncan was fatally shot Wednesday afternoon outside the group's office on the South Side. The 28-year-old was walking...

Chicago police interim Superintendent Fred Waller, Mayor Brandon Johnson and others gather for the funeral of Chicago police Officer Arèanah Preston.

At funeral for slain Chicago officer Aréanah Preston, her mother thanks God for ‘loaning us this angel’

May 17, 2023 at 5:34 p.m.

Family, friends and fellow officers gathered to remember slain Chicago police Officer Aréanah Preston at her funeral Wednesday, praising her commitment to the city and her job, which ended in...

A Chicago police detective, center, processes a crime scene in the 1300 block of East 79th Street in Chicago where a man was fatally shot on March 16, 2023.

Facing CPD remake, Mayor Brandon Johnson promises new approach, including adding police detectives

May 15, 2023 at 1:24 p.m.

On March 26, in the last days before Chicago's mayoral runoff election, Brandon Johnson appeared as a guest on the Rev. Al Sharpton's weekend show on MSNBC. As it was...

Fallen police Officer Aréanah Preston's sisters, center and right, stand with their mother, Dionne Mhoon, left, as she speaks after a bond court hearing on May 10, 2023, at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago for the four teens charged in connection with Officer Preston's slaying.

4 teens held without bond in slaying of Chicago off-duty officer

May 11, 2023 at 8:39 a.m.

Chicago police Officer Aréanah Preston was still in uniform when she parked her car after finishing a shift and walked toward her home. Three people then jumped out of a...

Anthony Driver Jr., left, and Remel Terry, of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, talk about their search for candidates for Chicago Police Department superintendent at City Hall on May 10, 2023.

53 candidates apply to become next CPD superintendent

May 10, 2023 at 1:44 p.m.

More than 50 people have applied to become the next permanent superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, according to the body tasked with submitting three finalists to Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson....

Mourners arrive at Blake-Lamb Funeral Home in Oak Lawn for the visitation for slain Chicago Police Officer Aréanah Preston on May 16, 2023.

Arrests made in slaying of off-duty Chicago police Officer Aréanah Preston

May 9, 2023 at 1:11 p.m.

Two days after off-duty Chicago police Officer Aréanah Preston was gunned down not long after leaving work, police sources said progress was being made in the investigation of the killing...

Chicago police officers patrol on foot outside of Millennium Park in downtown Chicago on April 22, 2023.

CPD, other emergency services unveil plans to address violence during summer months

May 5, 2023 at 4:23 p.m.

Leaders from Chicago's first-responder agencies on Friday sought to reassure city residents and visitors that plans are in place to ensure public safety during the historically violent summer months. "The...

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson, right, with Fred Waller, former chief of patrol for the Chicago Police Department, on May 3, 2023. Waller was named as the department's interim superintendent.

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson names interim CPD superintendent, discusses what he wants in a permanent police leader

May 3, 2023 at 4:04 p.m.

Not long after Chicago Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson on Wednesday named an interim leader of the Chicago Police Department, he was already discussing the kind of person he will choose to...

Former Chief of Patrol Fred Waller, center, talks with the media at the scene where a 19-year-old man was shot by police near West 21st Street and South California Avenue, March 1, 2020.

Fred Waller, a former chief in CPD, expected to be named interim superintendent this week

May 2, 2023 at 5:18 p.m.

Fred Waller, the former chief of patrol for the Chicago Police Department, has agreed to return as the department's interim superintendent after Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson is sworn in later this...

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