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Since the city’s consent decree was entered more than six years ago, the independent monitoring team has often stressed that the Chicago Police Department must bolster its data collection and ...
Chicago remains plagued by gang violence, high-powered weapons and open hostility toward police. Yet, when an officer-involved shooting occurs, public discourse often ignores the exhaustion imposed on ...
Chicago police have released an alert about robberies in the Wrigleyville and Gold Coast neighborhoods so far this year.
Robbers are targeting people in Chicago's Wrigleyville and Gold Coast neighborhoods, and accessing their bank information through their stolen phones, Chicago police said Monday.
People waiting for a rideshare pickup have been targeted in a series of recent robberies in at least two popular neighborhoods in Chicago, police warned Monday.
ShotSpotter’s parent company is among eight firms that submitted proposals for contracts to provide “gun violence detection technology,” according to records related to a bidding process some business ...
As always, the names of accused offenders are withheld. But the report includes a synopsis of cases that underscores Inspector General Deborah Witzburg’s uphill battle to as she put it, “pay down” ...
Three or four robbers run up, flash a weapon, and demand the victims' property. In several incidents, the suspects even stole the victims' banking information on their phones.
A man has been charged in stabbing and killing a woman on the city's Northwest Side on Saturday. The attack happened at about 11:24 p.m. Saturday in the 2700-block of West Balmoral Avenue in Budlong ...
A month after Columbia buckled to Trump’s demands, Harvard says it won’t accept them. Here’s how the battle unfolded.