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Chicago police officers keep watch as firefighters and paramedics take care of a person who was shot near the intersection of South May and West 58th streets in the Englewood neighborhood on Dec. 26, 2016.

How to stop guns, gangs and poverty? Chicago seeks solutions after violent 2016

June 8, 2018 at 12:18 p.m.

When shootings spiked in January 2016 in Los Angeles, police officials quelled violence in the hardest-hit area by swiftly analyzing data and holding daily conference calls among station commanders to...

Chicago police Officer John Gorman, left, walks out of the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago with attorney Michael Clancy on Dec. 21, 2016, after a judge acquitted him.

Judge acquits Chicago cop in allegedly drunken off-duty shooting

May 22, 2019 at 10:52 p.m.

A veteran Chicago cop grinned and hugged his former police partner outside a courtroom Wednesday, moments after a judge acquitted him of all criminal charges in an off-duty traffic dispute...

Chicago police officer John Gorman leaves the Leighton Criminal Court Building following the first day of his trial hearing, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2016.

Cop says he fired only warning shots, admits he’d been drinking

May 22, 2019 at 10:51 p.m.

A veteran Chicago cop charged with firing his gun at two people during an off-duty traffic dispute testified Monday that he fired only warning shots in the air, but he...

Kim Foxx, the newly sworn in State's Attorney speaks to the Tribune in her Chicago office Monday Dec. 5, 2016.

Top Cook County prosecutor raising bar for charging shoplifters with felony

May 22, 2019 at 10:50 p.m.

In her first major policy move since taking office, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx is dramatically raising the bar for charging shoplifters with a felony crime. Prosecutors were told...

Lionel White, who said he was beaten and framed on drug charges by Sgt. Ronald Watts and his team in 2006, had his conviction overturned Dec. 14, 2016.

Drug conviction dropped in case linked to corrupt former Chicago cop

May 22, 2019 at 10:50 p.m.

Cook County prosecutors moved on Wednesday to dismiss the drug conviction of Lionel White — the latest case tainted by the corruption of former Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts and...

Court to clarify witness testimony in Hadiya Pendleton slaying

May 22, 2019 at 11:07 p.m.

A Cook County judge ruled Tuesday that an eyewitness in the Hadiya Pendleton slaying can be questioned in court to clarify the strength of his proposed testimony. The eyewitness, Ronald...

Bits of police tape remain at the Parkway Gardens apartment homes near 65th Street and King Drive in Chicago on May 15, 2016, where 15-year-old De'Kayla Dansberry was fatally stabbed the night before.

Girl draws in court as judge considers her sentence in stabbing death of 15-year-old

May 22, 2019 at 11:05 p.m.

As the adults around her discussed the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old girl, the poor impulse control of the juvenile brain and the intricacies of sentencing law, the 14-year-old female...

Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke walks by Assistant Attorney General Barbara Greenspan, right, working on behalf of DCFS, to stand in front of Judge Vincent Gaughan at the Leighton Criminal Courts Building in Chicago on Dec. 8.

Judge in Laquan McDonald case grills city over protective order

May 22, 2019 at 10:49 p.m.

The judge overseeing the murder case against Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke grilled a city lawyer Thursday over whether her request to keep some 240,000 emails from public view...

Newly elected Kim Foxx details plans to reshape state’s attorney’s office

May 22, 2019 at 10:48 p.m.

Newly elected Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx detailed her plans Monday for reshaping the second-largest prosecutor's office in the country, including creating a unit to target firearms trafficking and...

Police officers salute the casket of Chicago Officer Michael Bailey at his funeral on July 23, 2010.

Suspect in cop killing brags he’s a ‘stickup man’ who preys on easy targets

June 12, 2018 at 3:37 a.m.

Antwon Carter sat picking at his meal at Area 2 police headquarters as two experienced homicide detectives faced him from across a table. A video of the interrogation — obtained...

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