Chicago Police Department

“The vast majority of police want to do the right thing. But there nonetheless is racism that lives within the body of organizations,” Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said.

Days after protesters took to the streets of Chicago to demand the city defund police, it is now becoming a national conversation.

Thousands of people protesting police brutality marched and rallied together in Chicago on Saturday, the latest in more than a week of protests over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.

Chicago police are investigating after an officer was recorded on video apparently using a homophobic slur during a protest.

As a massive protest took place Friday night in Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued a stern warning to officers while laying out her weekend safety plan as more demonstrations are expected.

An independent monitor overseeing the progress of reform of the Chicago Police Department said Friday that she will investigate allegations that officers have been violent toward people protesting the killing of George Floyd.

Two Chicago officers involved in the arrest of two African American women outside the Brickyard Mall have been relieved of their police powers after video of the incident went viral online.

Disturbing video appears to show Chicago police swarm a car Sunday afternoon outside of the Brickyard Mall, pulling two African American women out of it and then kneeling on one of them.

Protesters were arrested on Sunday night in Old Town.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lighfoot says access to downtown is restricted to only to residents and essential workers and the National Guard will have a presence in the city.

There were 61 additional deaths from coronavirus in Illinois reported Saturday, which adds up to 5,330 lives lost in the state since the outbreak began.

Chicago police announced Friday four more cases of COVID-19, bringing the number of cases in the department to 556.

Thursday marked the start of the Chicago Police Department’s Summer Mobile Patrol Unit. One-hundred officers will be deployed every day all over the city to focus on violent hotspots in neighborhoods.

Two men who were arrested as teenagers and spent nearly half their lives behind bars after being wrongfully convicted of murder have sued Chicago police and Cook County prosecutors for malicious prosecution, lawyers for the men announced Wednesday.

Dozens of protesters gathered outside Chicago Police Headquarters Tuesday, accusing officers of treating black and brown communities differently amid the coronavirus pandemic and to call for justice in the death of an African American man in Minneapolis police custody.

A federal judge has ordered a former Chicago police officer convicted of conspiring with a gang member in the kidnappings and robberies of drug dealers to be released from prison due to the threat of the coronavirus.

The Chicago Police Department has fined three churches $500 each for defying coronavirus social distancing restrictions by holding in-person services, making good on Mayor Lori Lighftoot’s warning that the city would “be taking action” against them.

Chicago police announced Friday six more cases of COVID-19, bringing the number of cases in the department to 514.