Crime and Public Safety

A Chicago man filed a lawsuit against the City of Chicago, a Chicago police detective and several officers after being charged in the death of a CFD firefighter.

Authorities are searching for Dane Paulsen, a toddler who went missing Saturday from his front yard in Oregon.

A 15-year-old student was shot outside a school on Chicago's South Side Tuesday morning.

A man was charged in connection with a shooting last year that killed a woman and caused her car to crash, leaving three others injured in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.

The Village of Homewood is renewing its efforts to solve a missing persons case that has remained unsolved for five decades.

Thirty officers at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey are facing criminal charges for allegedly staging "gladiator fights" among the youth sheltered at the facility.

Family members identified the victims as a North Texas rapper G$ Lil Ronnie and his 5-year-old daughter, who just celebrated her birthday on Sunday. Police are searching for two gunmen.

A police chase of two men wanted for multiple crimes started in Wisconsin and ended with a crash in Chicago’s north suburbs on Monday.

A federal judge vacated some convictions in the 2023 bribery case of the so-called "ComEd Four" in light of a separate Supreme Court ruling.

Robert Crimo III, charged in the 2022 Highland Park Fourth of July parade shooting, pleaded guilty on all counts Monday morning.

A Lakemoor man was charged with several felonies after allegedly shooting and killing his son Sunday and leaving the scene before his arrest, authorities said.

An investigation is underway after a 1-year-old boy died Monday morning on Chicago's South Side.