Crime and Public Safety

A 21-year-old man was fatally shot by a Des Plaines police officer Wednesday afternoon while officers responded to a reported domestic disturbance, authorities said.

Two Chicago men will spend years in federal prison after prosecutors say they carjacked a family at gunpoint in Beverly that was caught on video.

A Hazel Crest woman faces felony charges after a 6-month-old Chicago boy was killed in an alleged DUI-related crash over the holiday weekend on the Dan Ryan Expressway.

Three jurors in the Lindsay Clancy case are speaking publicly for the first time about the highly publicized murder trial that ended in a mistrial last week.

The Marshals Service says the operation focused on children reported missing through sex trafficking, physical and emotional abuse, neglect, runaways “and other forms of endangerment."

Prosecutors say a Chicago photographer met a minor through his work before allegedly engaging in sexual intercourse at a McHenry County park.

Lindsay Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, asked President Donald Trump to pardon Clancy, whose murder trial ended in a mistrial.

A homicide investigation is underway after a male was pushed from a moving CTA Red Line train and struck by another train Monday afternoon, according to Chicago police.

A Frankfort mother charged with murder in the hanging death of her 2-year-old son was ordered to remain in custody Tuesday as her case moves forward.

A fight at a St. Louis Jimmy John’s restaurant escalated to a shooting of a 14-year-old girl. 

Two Chicago police officers were hurt after an armed man fired multiple shots during an hourslong Logan Square standoff.

"WHEN YOU'RE ON A PLANE ... YOU CAN'T RETREAT." The hero passenger who duct-taped a disorderly Arizona realtor to his seat breaks down the wild midair struggle that ended with the agent arrested — and fired.

New court documents detail the attack last month that left Charity Geisel, of Elgin, dead.