Crime and Public Safety

Body camera footage released by authorities shows a Mundelein police officer fatally shooting a woman who police said approached officers and a family member while armed with two large knives.

A mural honoring three fallen Chicago police officers on the city's Southwest Side was defaced with graffiti Monday, prompting authorities to seek information about those responsible.

Troopers in Missouri say 11 skydivers and a pilot died in a fiery plane crash in Butler on Sunday.

A 32-year-old man was shot and killed Monday afternoon in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood.

Chicago police are searching for a suspect after a woman was sexually assaulted and robbed while jogging Saturday morning in Rainbow Park.

A Plainfield man has been charged with a hate crime after authorities said he directed a racial slur at a 9-year-old boy, pushed him and threw his bicycle during a confrontation this weekend in Naperville.

A special operation conducted by CBP officers in Indianapolis earlier this month targeting counterfeit World Cup merchandise resulted in the interception of hundreds of items.

Here's what happened overnight across Chicago, according to police.

Chicago police are asking for help identifying a man accused of stabbing a CTA rider in the Loop earlier this month.

Arlington Heights police are searching for a man accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl after reportedly luring her into his SUV with a request for help.

Several new laws are set to go into effect in Illinois on and after July 1, the start of the new fiscal year in the state.

A 40-year-old man was killed in a shooting Sunday evening while sitting inside a vehicle on Chicago’s Southwest Side.

A 39-year-old man was wounded in a shooting Sunday evening in Chicago's Austin neighborhood, according to police.

A former employee of an Evanston assisted-living facility has been charged with multiple felonies after prosecutors alleged he sexually abused a resident with physical and intellectual disabilities.

A 26-year-old man was wounded in a shooting Sunday afternoon while walking through an alley on Chicago's South Side, police said.

An IDOT worker was hurt when a car crashed into the vehicle they were assisting along I-94 in Chicago early Sunday morning.

More than 60 people were arrested after large crowds formed near Madison Square Garden following the Knicks game, with the NYPD reporting a shooting, slashings, burned buses, damaged police vehicles and injured officers.

A woman was stabbed by another woman during a fight on Chicago’s Near South Side early Sunday morning.