The Illinois Supreme Court this week will hear arguments from attorneys for the city of Chicago and Fraternal Order of Police in a case that will determine the future of serious misconduct cases invol...

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The small funeral home company that holds the lucrative contract for the city’s body removal services may soon be dissolved due to its failure to pay business license fees to the state.

The Chicago Police Department and Civilian Office of Police Accountability have both opened investigations after a viral video surfaced earlier this week purporting to show an off-duty CPD sergeant pr...

The state’s attorney’s office disclosed that 254 law enforcement officers in Cook County will not be called as witnesses for the prosecution following changes to office policy enacted last year. Of th...

In the coming months, for the first time in the 191-year history of the Chicago Police Department, white officers will no longer be the largest racial group in the department’s rank-and-file.

In an interview with the Tribune, Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling reflected on his time leading the department and some of the hallmarks of his administration — a sharp decline in gun vio...

Access to the resources and assistance to get out of the sex trade can depend on which law enforcement agency is involved and a person’s willingness to cooperate, the Tribune has found.

Six months after the death of Harold’s Chicken Shack CEO Kristen Pierce-Sherrod, the question remains: Who owns the iconic Chicago restaurant brand?

Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling will retire after nearly three decades with the Chicago Police Department.

One year after a mass shooting at her album release party in River North in which four people were killed and 14 others wounded, Chicago drill rapper Mello Buckzz was ordered held in the Cook County J...

Federal prosecutors have abruptly dropped charges against three men accused of robbing undercover agents during a gun transaction in Country Club Hills.

Federal prosecutors have abruptly dropped charges against three men accused of robbing undercover agents during a gun transaction in Country Club Hills.

A business formerly tied to a small funeral parlor on the Northwest Side was improperly awarded a city contract last year worth millions of dollars to transport bodies for the Chicago Police Departmen...

The Chicago Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize on Monday for its coverage of Operation Midway Blitz, the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement mission in the Chicago area last fall.

Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling on Thursday sought to clarify CPD’s response to Operation Midway Blitz during an often contentious meeting of the Community Commission for Public Safety an...

With a voluminous, years-in-the-making study of the Chicago Police Department’s officer deployment methods finished, CPD must now decide which changes to enact first in its effort to more effectively ...

More than two years after a shooting in the bleachers of a White Sox game, the central question remains: Where did the gunfire originate?

A Skokie woman said ICE detained for nearly 48 hours after landing at O’Hare. Three separate law enforcement agencies say her story doesn’t add up.

The Chicago Police Department’s bolstered training in the execution of search warrants will soon mean an increase in residential searches by CPD officers, Superintendent Larry Snelling told a feder…

The Chicago Police Department’s bolstered training in the execution of search warrants will soon mean an increase in residential searches by CPD officers, Superintendent Larry Snelling told a feder…

A Cook County judge on Monday denied the requests of a former Chicago Police Officer to expunge and seal records of his arrest and criminal trial in the fatal 2021 shooting of his girlfriend at her…

A Chicago Police officer previously shot in the line of duty — who publicly rebuked his former union — has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city, alleging that he was kept from join…

Former Chicago police Officer Pierre Tyler was one of about a dozen petitions for expungement heard last week by a Cook County judge. But Tyler’s case was the only one involving a former cop and a …

The Chicago police officers involved in the March 2024 shooting of Dexter Reed were largely cleared of wrongdoing by investigators with the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, city records sh…

A federal judge has dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit brought by a veteran police misconduct investigator against the city and the former chief administrator of the Civilian Office of Police Accoun…

Records obtained by the Tribune detail how one of CPD’s most effective homicide investigators recently closed a 5-year-old cold case, helping to raise the Police Department’s murder clearance rate …

Records obtained by the Tribune detail how one of CPD’s most effective homicide investigators recently closed a 5-year-old cold case, helping to raise the Police Department’s murder clearance rate …

Chicago construction worker Juan Espinoza Martinez was found not guilty of putting a bounty on the head of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino.

Seven people were shot and killed across the city in less than 18 hours Sunday, marking just the fourth January day to see that figure since 1991.

Office of Inspector General now offers an interactive data portal that allows anyone to see which Chicago Police Department officers are connected to misconduct claims.

Chicago Police officials this week said more civilian investigators will join the department’s Bureau of Internal Affairs as the office works to finish investigations more quickly and decrease its …

Chicago and Cook County saw another steep decline in fatal opioid overdoses last year, records show, four years after a recent peak in such cases during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Federal and state prosecutors now say a single gang faction on Chicago’s South Side committed 14 murders and shot at least 18 other people in just two years as part of a brazen crime spree meant to…

Despite some headline-grabbing mayhem, Chicago’s gun violence fell to levels not seen in a decade in 2025, with a homicide total roughly half what it was just four years ago.

Through mid-November, records show, CPD officers in 2025 have recovered nearly 400 “ghost guns” — effectively untraceable weapons.

Reputed Four Corner Hustlers boss Labar “Bro Man” Spann is once again facing life in prison after being convicted in a retrial of racketeering conspiracy involving four gangland murders…

As of mid-December, CPD Superintendent Larry Snelling still must decide whether or not to bring administrative charges in 490 cases in which the Civilian Office of Police Accountability sustained a…

The Chicago Police Department on Friday released 13 heavily redacted body camera videos depicting the initial response to a crash and shooting in Brighton Park involving federal immigration agents …

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability disclosed both officers were recommended to be separated from CPD the city later agreed to let the men each serve a one-year suspension.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability disclosed both officers were recommended to be separated from CPD the city later agreed to let the men each serve a one-year suspension.

A Chicago Police sergeant who was sexually harassed by her former supervisor has filed a federal lawsuit against the city — seeking class status to represent scores of CPD officers — alleging CPD’s…