Chicago Police Department

Interim Chicago Police Superintendent Charlie Beck spoke Thursday night -- after a board meeting -- on the sudden spike in crime downtown, even announcing an arrest in a shooting that happened Monday in the Loop.

Eddie Johnson was awarded the pension by the Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reported.

This week thousands of Chicago police officers are getting measured for new bulletproof vests, thanks to an organization that has raised millions of dollars.

Two male officers were taken to the hospital in good condition with non-life threatening injuries, police said.

Six Chicago police officers were hurt in a crash Saturday in Garfield Park on the West Side.

Chicago courts began overturning convictions in drug cases involving former Sgt. Ronald Watts in 2016.

A Chicago police detective was found dead of an apparent suicide Saturday.

The two-count civil complaint asks for more than $100,000 in damages and other payments, but it doesn’t specify an amount.

“This reorganization is about placing the maximum level of police resources closest to the communities that we serve,” Beck said in a statement.

The “minor explosion” occurred about 3:10 a.m. on the second floor of the station, 1718 S. State St., according to Chicago police.

Chicago police have ended a program that sought to predict people most likely to be victims or perpetrators of gun crime, according to a watchdog report released Thursday that warned the department of serious flaws in the approach.

The lawsuit alleges there was a code of silence that allowed the officers to hold kids at gunpoint, ransack apartments and falsify search warrants.

Chicago's 37 percent reduction in killings over the past three years is suddenly big news in Philadelphia, where the rising homicide rate is now higher than it is here.

The Chicago Police Board has received applications from 23 people who want to become the city’s next police superintendent, officials said Monday.

A Romeoville man is charged with threatening Chicago police officers with a BB gun inside the Lawndale police station.

A knife-wielding robbery suspect has died after being shot by a Chicago police officer Saturday in South Shore, according to authorities.

About 1,300 additional Chicago police officers are expected to be spread across the city on New Year’s Eve.

A Chicago police officer who was injured in the line of duty over 30 years ago is back home and getting the honor he deserves.

The family of officer Eduardo Marmolejo accuses negligence and willful and wanton conduct by Metra, South Shore Line, the train conductors, the suspect they were chasing and the City of Chicago, according to a 54-count suit filed Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court.