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Mayor Lori Lightfoot is considering a momentous change to Chicago police procedure: requiring officers to get a supervisor’s permission before beginning a foot chase. This comes after the shooting of Adam Toledo.

The Chicago Police Department on Sunday partnered with the Illinois Make-a-Wish Foundation to help one 7-year-old become a SWAT officer.

Police released an image Tuesday of a black car wanted in connection with shots fired at a police station in Rogers Park.

While Chicago struggles to grapple with its crime increase, Chicago’s 15th Ward Alderman Raymond Lopez told "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday that Mayor Lori Lightfoot has thrown police "under the bus" and failed to call out gang violence.

The only way for 13-year-old Adam Toledo to get justice, activists say, is with a federal probe into the Chicago police officer who shot him during a foot chase down a darkened alley.

Metra ​​​​​​​BNSF trains were operating up to 40 minutes behind scheduled Monday morning after a vehicle hit a bridge at Halsted Street near Union Station.

A passenger fired shots at a CTA bus driver late Sunday night in South Chicago.

The Chicago Teachers Union said the deal with CPS includes a clause to vaccinate students and their families against COVID-19. The return date coincides with Chicago's expansion of vaccine eligibility to 16- and 17-year-olds on Monday.

The attorney for Chicago Police Officer Eric Stillman, who killed 13-year-old Adam Toledo, said that Stillman was a decorated U.S. Marine who served in combat. "And this is the hardest part, these officers need to make split second decisions of life and death. And he made a decision that was consistent with Chicago police general orders use of force guidelines and with the law.'+"

Newly released video that shows a Chicago police officer fatally shoot a 13-year-old will be key evidence when prosecutors consider a case against the officer and are confronted with both the emotions surrounding the chilling footage and legal precedent that makes it difficult to bring charges against law enforcement.

'Adam Toledo was loved. He was one of ours," the statement read in part.

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., took to Twitter late Thursday to call out the prosecutor in the Adam Toledo shooting-death case in Chicago.

Chicago's police oversight agency on Thursday released bodycam and third-party video of police fatally shooting 13-year-old Adam Toledo last month in Little Village.

The Chicago Teachers Union announced Thursday it has reached a "tentative framework" with Chicago Public Schools for high school students to return to in-person learning starting April 19.

"They should release [the video] so we can see the truth," one Little Village resident said. "They’re obviously hiding something if they haven’t released the name of the cop who shot him."

The Chicago Department of Transportation announced Wednesday the Lake Shore Drive Bridge over the Chicago River is set to be raised Thursday night for “testing and maintenance” the same day the city plans to release video of 13-year-old Adam Toledo’s fatal shooting by police in Little Village.