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Laura De La Fuente holds poster boards filled with photos of her late boyfriend Esau Castellanos, who was shot to death in March 2013 by police who said he fired on them. "I want to know the truth," she said. "I know he had no gun."

FBI investigating another fatal shooting by Chicago police

February 5, 2020 at 7:32 a.m.

The account the two Chicago police officers provided about the fatal shooting of Esau Castellanos came to a dramatic conclusion. After following Castellanos' car as it sped at about 80...

Judge: Using Taser, dragging Coleman from lockup amounts to ‘brute force’

May 22, 2019 at 9:05 p.m.

A federal judge ruled Monday that a Chicago police employee used "brute force" when he dragged a handcuffed suspect out of his cell and down a police station hallway in...

Percy Coleman speaks about his son, Philip O. Coleman, outside his Chicago home on Dec. 14, 2012. Coleman died after Chicago police used a taser on him in December 2012.

Video shows Taser used on Philip Coleman in Chicago police custody

June 16, 2018 at 9:57 a.m.

Amid a growing crisis over the Chicago Police Department's use of force, the city late Monday released a video that shows officers in a Far South Side police lockup repeatedly...

New video shows suspect hit with Taser in Chicago police lockup

May 22, 2019 at 9:03 p.m.

Amid a growing crisis over the Chicago Police Department's use of force, the city late Monday released a video that shows officers in a Far South Side police lockup repeatedly...

Chicago police officer Gildardo Sierra leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse on Tuesday, March 3, 2015.

Chicago’s flawed system for investigating police shootings

December 23, 2018 at 11:28 a.m.

It is a system seemingly designed to fail. Chicago police officers enforce a code of silence to protect one another when they shoot a citizen, giving some a sense they...

Melvin Moore is a paroled inmate being sued by the Illinois Department of Corrections to recoup the costs of incarceration.

State sues prisoners to pay for their room, board

May 22, 2019 at 9:01 p.m.

The $31,690 Johnny Melton received to settle a lawsuit over his mother's death was going to help him start life anew after prison. But before he was released, after 15...

Cook County judges get death threats: ‘You’re on a kill list’

May 22, 2019 at 8:54 p.m.

At least five Cook County judges have recently received death threats in anonymous letters sent to their chambers, including one warning, "You're on a kill list." The death threats caused...

Sen. Mark Kirk’s aide: From caregiver to campaign worker

August 18, 2019 at 8:15 p.m.

Sen. Mark Kirk, who has needed help with some everyday tasks such as preparing meals and physically getting around since suffering a debilitating stroke in 2012, put his live-in caregiver...

Michael Lipford, shown Feb. 19, 2014, alleges in a lawsuit that probation officers and city police illegally searched his West Side apartment.

Chicago man’s suit alleges officers illegally searched his home

August 18, 2019 at 8:15 p.m.

A Chicago man has alleged in a federal civil rights lawsuit that Cook County probation officers and city police illegally searched his home, arrested him without cause and then walked...

Cook County jury awards $18 million to three rape victims

May 22, 2019 at 8:22 p.m.

A Cook County jury has awarded $18 million to three women who were sexually assaulted at knifepoint in Chicago's Bucktown and Lakeview neighborhoods after a serial rapist walked out of...

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