Crime and Public Safety

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a 73-year-old retired Chicago police officer.

A Fairfax County Public Schools special education teacher has been charged with seven misdemeanors for allegedly abusing multiple students.

A Bartlett man has been sentenced to 19 years of imprisonment in the Illinois Department of Corrections for stabbing two people outside an Elgin bar in 2022.

Former Chicago Alderman Ed Burke was sentenced Monday to prison and fined $2 million following his conviction on 13 political corruption charges last December.

Franklin Pena Ramos, one of the suspects charged with capital murder in the death of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray's , appeared before a judge Monday morning.

A Chicago woman was reported missing in the Bahamas on Friday, according to the Royal Bahamas Police Force.

Chicago police warned the public Monday after a series of armed robberies over a period of four days this month across several neighborhoods.

Eight people were killed and 22 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago this weekend, according to police.

A man was charged in connection with a shooting earlier this month in the Gresham neighborhood.

A Chicago man was charged after an armed robbery on the South Side escalated to a shooting.

A 16-year-old boy was arrested in connection to an armed robbery turned shooting in Chicago's Austin neighborhood earlier this month. 

A man was wounded in an exchange of gunfire in Washington Park Sunday night.