Crime and Public Safety

Chicago's longest-serving alderman, Ed Burke, reported to federal prison on Monday.

A Chicago man was arrested in connection with a road rage shooting in Lansing Saturday afternoon.

Chicago police are looking for a group of teenagers accused of robbing a CTA passenger last week. 

A suburban man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for a fatal DUI crash that happened in May 2023. 

Luis Armando Albino was 6 years old in 1951 when he was abducted while playing at an Oakland park. Now, more than seven decades later, Albino has been found thanks to help from an online ancestry test, old photos and newspaper clippings.

Venezuelan migrants moving into Chicago’s South Side have caught the attention of the city’s gangs, with some fearing an impending turf war between local gangs and their Venezuelan counterparts.

A 16-year-old boy is facing charges in two violent robberies at CTA stations in the Loop last week.

Chicago police are investigating after two businesses were burglarized early Monday morning on Chicago's Northwest Side.

A man was shot during an argument early Monday in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood.

The agent, who was on duty, was handling his service weapon when the firearm discharged.

Authorities are continuing the search for 17-year-old Perla Zumaya, who was reported missing after leaving her home on Friday without her cellphone.

A teenage boy is in critical condition and a group of suspects is on the run after a shooting on the city's South Side.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is exploring other options after the city's contract with ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection technology, expired.

A missing 22-year-old woman on the city's Southwest Side has been found.

Four people have died and more than 20 have been wounded in a shooting in a nightlife area in Birmingham, in the US state of Alabama, according to police and news reports.