Crime and Public Safety

A man is facing multiple charges after allegedly stealing a police car, hijacking a USPS truck, and crashing into a family of three in a chaotic crime spree that unfolded Wednesday afternoon.

A Chicago man was charged in connection with a deadly stabbing Tuesday night in the Albany Park neighborhood.

A woman was charged with fatally shooting another woman during an argument earlier this week on a CTA Red Line platform.

Aurora police have released new images from an officer-involved shooting that took place early Wednesday morning after a chase that began in Geneva.

Investigators now say rapper Yella Beezy was behind the ambush-style murder of fellow rapper Mo3 in the middle of the day on I-35 back in 2020.

An 8-year-old boy was killed and a 5-year-old boy was injured in a shooting Thursday afternoon on Chicago's South Side, authorities said.

An Illinois State Trooper was injured when their squad car was rear-ended by a driver who failed to move over on Interstate 290 in DuPage County, authorities said.

A Cook County man was indicted by a grand jury this week for allegedly stabbing a man during a road rage incident last year.

A man was fatally shot by Chicago police during a domestic dispute Thursday morning on the city's Far South Side.

A Florida woman allegedly drowned her dog in an airport bathroom after she was told she could not board her flight with the pet because she didn't have the proper paperwork, an official arrest affidavit shows.

A Chicago man was charged in connection with a shootout inside a liquor store last week in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.

A 15-year-old boy was charged in connection with two armed carjackings last January on Chicago's Southwest Side.

One man is in custody while another is recovering at a hospital after a shooting at a hospital in Troy sparked chaos around the community.

Buffalo Grove police are searching for 12-year-old Jonathan Shin, who went missing Wednesday night.

Prosecutors say Bryan Kohberger’s Amazon history proves he purchased a Ka-Bar knife eight months prior to the Idaho student murders.

A chaotic series of events unfolded Wednesday in Chicago's suburbs when a suspect stole a Bedford Park police squad car before hijacking a United States Postal Service truck and crashing into a family of three, officials said.