Chicago homicides in 2024: 494 people slain. Here’s how that compares with previous years.
After a two-year spike during the pandemic and national outrage over police accountability, Chicago began to see a decline in ...
14-year-old boy charged with fatally shooting man on Chicago's South Side
CHICAGO (CBS) – A 14-year-old boy was arrested on Monday in connection with the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old man back in ...
Chicago man found guilty of murder in fatal shooting of Northwestern University student in 2018
Diante Speed, then 19, fired a volley of gunshots at a man who he claimed had brandished a gun at him as he and two friends ...
Chicago police boss, COPA don’t see eye to eye on fatal police shooting of Reginald Clay Jr.
A fatal shooting two weeks earlier was still on the officers’ radar. Gunfire had left a 32-year-old man dead on West Flournoy ...
Zach LaVine, Bulls have a turnover problem: ‘We’re shooting ourselves in the foot’
It would be easy to excuse Chicago’s miscues as early-season kinks if they weren’t so egregious. The Bulls have 57 turnovers in three games.
A Chicago cop faces firing over a fatal shooting; months earlier, he shot and paralyzed another man
The Chicago Police Board president ruled last week that Officer Fernando Ruiz should face disciplinary proceedings to determine whether a deadly encounter with Reginald Clay Jr. in April 2023 should ...
‘It felt like a war’: Laquan McDonald police shooting 10 years ago shocked Chicago, rippled through halls of power
By any objective measure, the killing of Laquan McDonald a decade ago was the single most impactful police shooting in ...
Retired Chicago police officer describes shooting suspected West Side car thief
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A retired police officer said he fired at a suspected vehicle thief on the West Side Thursday morning.