The significant surge in shootings by officers in the first five months of 2025 comes more than six years after city and ...

Laura Washington It’s one step forward, two steps back. That’s the state of public safety in Chicago. Summer fun is here, but in recent years, that’s been overshadowed by the specter of escalating ...

The state needs to think big and pursue a path other than taxing its way out of this ever-more-threatening disaster. Governor ...

In December 2023, the Chicago City Council voted against a parliamentary move to consider a nonbinding referendum on whether ...

Vance Boelter, the man accused of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, is set to make his first court ...

If the snap curfew proposal passes, CPD could declare emergency curfews for minors without prior approval from the mayor, City Council, or police district councils. The potential for harm is enormous: ...

Many longtime New Yorkers have had a sinking feeling at some point in the past decade. They have worried that their city was heading back to the bad old days of the 1970s and ’80s. Subway trips can ...

Some Chicago alderpeople are pushing a “snap curfew,” a racist, police-first policy disguised as public safety. The “snap curfew” ordinance that would give the Chicago Police Department (CPD) sweeping ...

President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Kier Starmer have officially signed the U.S.-U.K. trade deal. Follow ...

The funeral services for Chicago police Officer Krystal Rivera, who was shot and killed by friendly fire earlier this month, ...

Rivera was shot and killed in the line of duty on June 5 in the city's East Chatham neighborhood after an "investigatory stop" led to a police chase.

Tensions erupted in Chicago as ICE officers clashed with protesters outside a federal courthouse amid US President Donald ...