Chicago police

A wheel fell off a small aircraft shortly before the plane’s arrival at O’Hare International Airport Thursday evening and ended up in a nearby neighborhood, authorities said.

The president of the Chicago Police officers’ union says 17 officers and supervisors have been suspended for their involvement in an incident in which several officers were captured on video lounging in the office of a congressman during last summer’s unrest.

One of 12 officers placed on desk duty in the botched 2019 police raid on the home of a Black woman was accused in an earlier mistaken raid, while another of the officers was involved months later in a fatal shooting, according to a newspaper report.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday had her counsel move to withdraw sanctions against an attorney who represents the woman at the center of a botched Chicago police raid and the controversy that followed it.

Anjanette Young said she is still dealing with the aftermath two years after Chicago police officers stormed into her home while serving a search warrant at the wrong address and handcuffed her naked for several minutes, despite her repeated cries that they were in the wrong home.

Judges have upheld the firings of two Chicago police officers who lost their jobs after they were accused of helping cover up the 2014 fatal shooting of Black teenager Laquan McDonald by a fellow officer.

A Black woman who was shot and wounded inside a vehicle by a police officer who also fatally shot her 19-year-old boyfriend told about 200 people gathered at an emotional rally in suburban Chicago that she’s fighting to be there for her son

A new report released Friday by the Chicago’s Office of Inspector General outlines an alleged cover-up by seven members of the Chicago Police Department surrounding then-Supt. Eddie Johnson’s 2019 drunk driving incident, a response that resulted in suspensions for all seven.

Social media posts that followed a police-involved shooting in Chicago encouraged looting as “tempers flared, fueled by misinformation,” Police Supt. David Brown said after an evening of unrest led to more than 100 arrests and left downtown businesses damaged for a second time this summer.

Chaos erupted in downtown Chicago early Monday, with widespread looting at countless businesses, property damage, as well as shots fired both at and by police.

Multiple officers were injured Thursday morning after gunfire erupted as they attempted to arrest a “violent carjacking offender” at a district police station in Chicago’s Belmont Cragin neighborhood, authorities said.

Chicago Police said at least 14 people were hospitalized. “All we saw was just bodies laying everywhere,” said one resident.

At least 17 people, including a young girl, are dead and at least 72 others have been wounded in shootings across the city over the long Fourth of July weekend. Twelve of the victims were minors and two of them died from their injuries, according to police. The most recent fatality took place when a 39-year-old man was found shot…

A new report from the independent monitor overseeing the federal consent decree to reform the Chicago Police Department shows that the city has missed the majority of deadlines issued on those reforms in its first year under the court-ordered agreement.

Videotape shows more than a dozen officers “lounging” in U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush’s campaign office, one even making popcorn, as protests and looting erupted in Chicago earlier this month, he revealed Thursday.

Members of the National Guard have been called to Chicago as the city braces for additional protests following a night of destruction despite a citywide curfew, the city’s mayor announced Sunday. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, at her request, “has ordered a contingent of the National Guard to maintain a limited presence to support our...

Chicago’s mayor said video footage of police shooting and wounding a suspect inside a downtown Chicago train station is “extremely disturbing” and that she supports the interim police superintendent’s request for prosecutors to be sent directly to the scene — an unusual or perhaps unprecedented action in the nation’s third largest city. After watching what she called the “widely...

The results of a toxicology report for rapper Juice WRLD were released Wednesday, with the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office ruling his cause of death an “accident.” According to the medical examiner, 21-year-old Jarad Higgins died of oxycodone and codeine toxicity in December. The young rapper had suffered what officials previously called a medical incident when he and his...

Chicago police say a 13-year-old is a person of interest in the murder of a beloved nurse who was shot and killed while still in his scrubs in the city’s Little Village neighborhood last month. CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Friday that the teen was considered a person of interest in the shooting, but no charges had been filed....

Chicago police say a beloved nurse who was shot and killed while walking in his scrubs in the city’s Little Village neighborhood last month may have been targeted in the shooting in a case of mistaken identity. “It’s gang territory, it’s a rival gang territory and it appears – once again it appears – that these individuals get in...