Crime and Public Safety

In a terrifying Labor Day ordeal, a Chicago mother of two found herself begging for her life while her 10-year-old son ran for safety.

A Chicago student brought a fake grenade into their elementary school Wednesday on the city's Northwest Side.

Two Macomb police officers are in critical but stable condition after being shot while serving a warrant near Western Illinois University.

An 85-year-old woman who was reported missing Sunday on the Southwest Side has been found dead, her family confirms.

An Illinois man was arrested last week for allegedly possessing two dozen guns and drugs. 

Three people are behind bars in connection with a mail carrier's shooting death in southwest suburban Orland Park earlier this year.

Newly released surveillance video from the deadly shooting on a CTA Blue Line train reveals a witness jumping out of a moving train car moments before the alleged gunman was seen calmly walking on the platform after the gunfire.

Several people are hospitalized, including 16 inmates, after a transport bus was involved in a crash Wednesday afternoon in Lake County.

Parents and students are in shock following a deadly mass shooting at Apalachee High School on Wednesday morning, where four people were tragically killed, and nine others were hospitalized.

A former suburban Chief Operating Officer of a company that sold COVID-19 testing kits was sentenced this week to six years and five months in federal prison for embezzling more than $1.85 million in company funds. 

Chicago police are searching for a 12-year-old girl who was reported missing from the Avondale neighborhood on Wednesday.