In a lawsuit, they have accused the Chicago Police Department of using excessive force, pointing guns at children, and raiding the wrong apartment. U.S. District Judge Franklin U. Valderrama gave ...

The wrongful police raid on an innocent family, which propelled a years-long investigation by CBS News Chicago and sparked police reforms, is set for trial Monday, April 21. The Mendez family is ...

CHICAGO — Chicago police opened a death investigation after a newborn baby was discovered unresponsive overnight inside an apartment building on the South Side. Around midnight Tuesday ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago police are searching for a man involved in three attack's on DePaul University's campus on the North Side. The incidents happened Saturday night near West Belden Avenue ...

The release of homicide victims’ names is delayed by two weeks to allow time for the victims’ families to be notified of a death by Chicago police. The homicide figures do not include killings ...

The victim was able to break free and run away as a Chicago police officer is heard saying, "he's got a gun," before five shots were fired at the suspect. Officers handcuffed the suspect and ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A convicted cop killer was sentenced Tuesday. Menelik Jackson was found guilty in a trial as the gunman in October for the murder of off-duty 23-year-old Chicago police Officer ...

Sending her twin 6½-year-olds to school, Katjusa Cisar had always assumed the building was free of common environmental hazards. Then she learned Trowbridge School of Great Lakes Studies, the ...

Pat Nabong/Sun-Times file Share A man was shot during a fight aboard a Blue Line CTA train after declining to buy cannabis from a gunman Sunday night in the West Loop, according to Chicago police.