A 48-year-old woman is charged with first-degree murder, accused of stabbing a 7-year-old girl to death on a South Side street Saturday morning.

A 22-year-old man with a long history of armed robberies and carjackings teamed up with a 16-year-old boy to shoot a man and carjack another driver in Streetervile on Friday, Chicago police say.

A man who recently moved to Chicago from Kurdistan sexually assaulted a woman while working as an unlicensed massage therapist at an Uptown massage spa, prosecutgors say. His attorney claims he was a ...

A 23-year-old man was found fatally shot in Grand Crossing more than 10 hours after city records indicate the shooting occurred. Police say no 911 calls reporting gunfire were received around the time...

An off-duty Chicago police officer shot two people, including a man who punched him in the face, then got out of his vehicle and fired toward the man's companions in Little Village early Sunday, accor...

A 32-time convicted felon accused of stealing five more scooters during a summertime theft spree was arrested Thursday and released the next day without even an ankle monitor.

A 48-year-old woman fatally stabbed a 7-year-old girl on a South Side street Saturday afternoon, then was knocked unconscious by a bystander and taken into police custody, according to Chicago police ...

What took so long? A video of the 2022 killing of 32-year-old Corey Finley has been circulating online for more than 4 years. Now, CPD has finally released a video clip to the media and it’s asking th...

A 64-year-old man was shot during an attempted robbery in a Streeterville parking garage Friday night, and the robbers then carjacked another driver at a nearby grocery store parking garage to make th...

A 36-year-old woman has been charged with breaking a Red Line passenger’s ribs during an attack aboard a train on the North Side last month, according to Chicago police.

Chicago police were questioning a man Friday evening after a 14-year-old boy was shot in the neck and critically injured in West Rogers Park.

A 34-year-old smoke shop operator was shot and killed inside his Northwest Side store Thursday night after a witness saw a masked man inside and then watched a gunman flee following the sound of gunfi...

Chicago police are looking for three people who allegedly followed a woman from the Loop to the South Side on the Red Line before attacking and robbing her.

A 19-year-old with a juvenile history involving guns, drugs, and carjacking has received his first adult prison sentence: 18 years for shooting a teenage boy during a robbery as the victim walked to s...

A woman initially accused of trying to murder a Chicago police officer during a 2023 South Side confrontation has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and been sentenced to seven years.

Prosecutors have charged a man with repeatedly trying to lure a 15-year-old girl into his car as she waited for a bus ride home from school on the Northwest Side last month. The girl calmly recorded h...

A Portage Park woman with a history of fraud convictions who kept her dead mother’s body in a freezer for nearly two years so she could continue collecting the woman’s Social Security checks is now fa...

A veteran Chicago police sergeant was caught on video threatening a group of teenagers during an off-duty confrontation in Garfield Ridge, then allegedly punched a 17-year-old girl in the head when sh...

A Chicago Public Schools teacher was stabbed repeatedly in an apparently random attack while riding a CTA bus home from work earlier this month, an incident police never disclosed publicly and that th...

The search for Chicago’s next police superintendent has produced 44 applicants, including current and former Chicago Police Department members and law enforcement leaders from across the country, as t...

A woman charged with attempted murder for pushing a Taylor Swift fan onto the Blue Line tracks as the victim headed to one of the superstar’s concerts at Soldier Field in 2023 has pleaded guilty to a ...

The man who shot and gravely wounded a 1-year-old girl inside a Chicago Lawn home over the weekend intended to pull the trigger on an electric drill but accidentally pulled the trigger on a machine gu...

Two men have been charged in connection with a string of violent spa robberies on a single night in July that stretched from Bucktown to the Evanston border.

A 15-time felon who has repeatedly posed as a police officer to rob people allegedly did it again on the Northwest Side last month, using a fake patrol car with flashing blue lights to stop three men,...

With early in-person and mail-in voting now underway in Illinois, state and local election officials insisted Friday that the state’s voting system is being run fairly and accurately.

A Chicago father and son are facing attempted murder charges over an alleged rush-hour road rage attack that left a driver needing more than 20 stitches. One of the men, prosecutors say, was already o...

A hit-and-run driver who killed a 27-year-old woman as she made an Uber Eats delivery in Austin with her almost 2-year-old son strapped into her car has been given a four-year prison sentence.

Online trash talk between a man and his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend preceded a shooting that left the 26-year-old man wounded on a Lincoln Square street corner Saturday afternoon, police said.

Chicago police are asking for help identifying a person accused of attacking a woman aboard a Red Line train downtown, leaving her with multiple broken ribs.

A 19-year-old who joined two juveniles in an attack that left a 62-year-old CTA bus passenger unconscious and critically injured last year has been sentenced to six months of probation, court records ...

A one-year-old girl is in critical condition after being shot inside a Marquette Park home overnight. Chicago police have a man in custody.

Chicago police are investigating after a 39-year-old man was shot near the Wilson CTA station in Uptown early Saturday morning, although questions remain about exactly what happened.

New video shows work van thieves in action in the West Loop, including the moment they break into a contractor’s van and take about $3,500 worth of equipment. The same crew may be linked to 14 other b...

A Chicago police officer has been recommended for termination after COPA sustained allegations that he sexually assaulted his then-18-year-old girlfriend, provided her with alcohol, and later accessed...

A suburban teacher and volleyball coach accused of secretly recording a student could not be detained under the SAFE-T Act, and that’s a problem that needs to be fixed, an Illinois state senator and f...

A man who shot a Lyft driver days after completing a juvenile detention sentence for an armed carjacking has been sentenced to 15 years.

A Niles man was sentenced to 7 years for hate crimes at Northwestern University after defacing campus property with swastikas and other Nazi symbols. Shahid Hussain had previously been convicted of a ...

The father of Chicago rapper Mello Buckzz, whose record release party preceded the deadliest mass shooting in Chicago history, has been sentenced to time served in a federal gun case.

Chicago police are looking for two men who shot a 15-year-old boy outside a restaurant in East Garfield Park earlier this month. CPD released surveillance images Wednesday showing the suspects, includ...

Chicago police say an elementary school girl was sexually assaulted as she walked to class Wednesday morning, and the assailant may be only 13 or 14 years old.

Days after Chicago police warned about gunmen robbing women of jewelry on the streets of Lincoln Park, CPD has issued a similar community alert for Little Italy. But so far, police have not publicly l...

A 10-minute nightmare that began when Taylen Byndum carjacked a woman and her 1-year-old daughter in the West Loop will now cost the 19-year-old years of his life. Byndum, of Bolingbrook, pleaded guil...

The discovery of Zenobia Weatherspoon’s body in a Back of the Yards trash can sparked intense summer outrage and demands for justice. Two months later, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office says i...

911 callers reported gunfire in West Pullman Monday morning, but none could pinpoint where the shots came from. Police searched the area without finding the victim, who lay on a nearby bike path for n...

Prosecutors have charged a third person in connection with the murder of a man who was thrown from a moving Red Line train on the South Side earlier this month. Christian McBounds, 18, is scheduled to...

A Park Forest man who threatened to kill federal immigration officers and other public officials on social media has been sentenced to a year in federal prison.

A Chicago man who robbed a Red Line passenger while wearing an ankle monitor for another Red Line robbery he committed while also wearing an ankle monitor has been given six-year sentences for both cr...

Frank Burrell spent about 20 years in prison on a 1999 murder conviction that was later overturned. On Thursday, a Cook County judge rejected his bid to be declared innocent of the crime, ruling that ...

The system had three chances to stop Alex Cusick. Each time, he was released. On the fourth arrest, prosecutors say, he escalated from stealing restaurant tip jars and hopping a CTA turnstile to viole...

A 19-year-old man has been given an eight-year sentence for shooting a woman in the back during a robbery while he had three felony cases pending in juvenile court.