Crime and Public Safety

A 17-year-old boy was arrested this week after he allegedly fled from police and was in possession of a loaded handgun.

A 17-year-old boy was arrested about 30 minutes after allegedly carjacking a man at gunpoint and fleeing from police.

A Chicago man was arrested this week after allegedly battering and carjacking another man last month. 

A man was shot in the back in Logan Square Thursday night.

Police are asking for the public's help locating a 15-year-old girl who has been missing since late May and could be in the Chicago area.

A man was killed and another was wounded in a drive-by shooting Thursday night in the Lawndale neighborhood.

Three men and two juveniles were arrested in connection with burglaries Thursday in a neighborhood in suburban Bolingbrook.

The 14-year-old suspected Apalachee High School shooter is scheduled to make his first appearance in court on Friday - just a day after his father was also arrested on multiple charges.

Officials have released the names of the two teachers and two students killed during Wednesday's shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder.

"If these psychos are going to go after our kids we’ve got to be prepared for it," Sen. JD Vance said at a rally in Phoenix. "We don’t have to like the reality that we live in, but it is the reality we live in. We’ve got to deal with it."

Chicago police are warning the public after an attempted kidnapping involving a 7-year-old girl in the Jefferson Park neighborhood on the city's Northwest Side.

A group of at least a dozen people looted a UPS truck on Chicago's Southwest Side Thursday after the vehicle’s roof was torn off while attempting to drive under a viaduct.

Two Chicago police officers, including a high-ranking deputy chief, have been relieved of their police powers following allegations that they reportedly damaged a vehicle during this year’s Puerto Rican Fest in Humboldt Park.

Police recruits in the Cook County Sheriff’s Department are receiving hands-on experience with a little help from an unexpected source—senior citizens.

Joliet police have arrested 21 people as part of "Operation Streetsweeper," a targeted effort focused on suspects involved in weapons, drugs, burglary, and theft offenses.

Hunter Biden on Thursday entered a guilty plea on all nine federal tax charges brought against him by special counsel David Weiss, his attorney said in court Thursday, shocking federal prosecutors.

The suspect who allegedly shot two Macomb police officers has been taken into custody after being barricaded inside a house since Wednesday night.