Police tried to deescalate the situation and ordered the male to keep his hands visible when an officer discharged his gun, CPD said.

Illinois Conservation Police said four teens, ages 16 and 17, shot a coyote with a bow and stomped it to death earlier this ...

Chicago police officers shot and wounded a man Thursday afternoon in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood on the city’s Far South Side. Officers were called to the 11000 block of South Millard Avenue ...

A man was shot by a Chicago police officer during an incident in the city’s Mount Greenwood neighborhood Thursday afternoon.

Mayor Brandon Johnson and Governor JB Pritzker are once again pushing back on the Trump administration's promise of mass deportations ...

Robert Pasco appears in court for a status hearing on the unlawful use of a weapon charge after fatally shooting his pregnant girlfriend.

The shooter was “significantly influenced by web-based material, especially that found on non-traditional sites that most would find harmful and objectionable,” police said.

We are not going to be intimidated by those acts of terror to radically shift our way of living,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said. “That’s what individuals who stoke fear into people want to see happen.” ...

I don't sit around thinking about the hypotheticals,” Johnson said in an interview with WBEZ Thursday as he defended the city’s law protecting undocumented immigrants.

Four teenage boys have been cited in connection with the death of a coyote on the Far South Side earlier this month, ...

Many leaders say their policies to limit local cooperation with federal immigration officials stand. But signs of division have emerged.