Crime and Public Safety

Off-duty police officer shoots man in Little Village during physical altercation, police say

October 4, 2026 at 3:14 p.m.

The officer was driving in the 2600 block of West 24th Street when he stopped...

October 4, 2026 at 11:10 a.m.

Christa Pike has remained unconscious and on a ventilator at a hospital in the four...

October 3, 2026 at 7:53 p.m.

Anthony Nunnally, 21, who is already facing separate first-degree murder charges for two teenage girls...

October 3, 2026 at 7:10 p.m.

A woman is in police custody Saturday after bystanders saw her fatally stab a 7-year-old...

October 3, 2026 at 2:01 p.m.

The head of Tennessee’s prison system is resigning, Gov. Bill Lee announced Saturday, the first...

October 4, 2026 at 2:51 p.m.

Mohammad Abuhashish, 34, was found fatally shot Thursday night inside a Portage Park smoke shop.

October 3, 2026 at 11:13 a.m.

An intense, public outcry over a woman's account of being gang-raped at a Cornell University...

October 3, 2026 at 8:00 p.m.

A 61-year-old man was fatally wounded during a home invasion early Saturday morning in the...

October 3, 2026 at 9:10 a.m.

The co-pilot on a FlyDubai flight that nearly crashed with 182 people on board has...

October 2, 2026 at 9:50 p.m.

The documents include excerpts of interviews Cornell's investigators did with the woman and the men...