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Standoff underway at Kenwood home: CFD
1+ week, 4+ day ago (29+ words) Ambulances and SWAT officers were on the scene in the 4300 block of South Lake Park Avenue for a person barricaded inside a home, according to the fire department....
Young police officers, as I once was, don't have all the answers
2+ week, 1+ day ago (178+ words) Experience, mentorship and time turn police academy knowledge into judgment. The public assumes every officer, even rookies, have that knowledge....
Body found in car on Dan Ryan near Rate Field
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (25+ words) State troopers responded to a call for the disabled vehicle in the southbound lanes of the expressway near 35th Street and found the dead body....
License plate reader abuses worry conservatives too
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (515+ words) A Flock license plate reader is shown in August on Touhy Avenue near McCormick Boulevard in Skokie. Last month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott froze state funding for automated license plate readers, acknowledging concerns about the warrantless surveillance enabled by such…...
Des Plaines police officer shoots man while responding to domestic disturbance
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (187+ words) Chicago Sun-Times Why are we asking for donations? Des Plaines police officer shoots man while responding to domestic disturbance Police were responding to a “domestic disturbance” at a home in 2000 block of Touhy Avenue when an officer shot the man....
DOJ went after protesters in Chicago and other cities for felony assault, but failed to get convictions
14+ hour, 22+ min ago (797+ words) The Associated Press' analysis focused on arrests made during protests last summer and fall in LA, Chicago, Portland, Oregon, and Washington, D.C. — cities with significant protests where President Donald Trump sought to or successfully deployed the National Guard....
Illinois suburbs halt Flock use, suspend officers and review policy amid alleged improper use
1+ week, 4+ day ago (141+ words) Homer Glen announced Monday that it was suspending the use of Flock cameras within its borders pending an investigation after a Will County Sheriff’s Deputy was placed on administrative leave amid allegations he misused the database of license plate tracking…...
Chicago police traffic stops plunge, again, but Black and Latino drivers still get pulled over far more
4+ week, 1+ day ago (1014+ words) Chicago police officers in the Rogers Park District conduct a traffic stop for an expired license plate in March 2025. The Chicago Police Department made fewer traffic stops in 2025 than in the previous year and less than half the stops it…...
$250,000 reward offered for information in 2018 disappearance of pregnant postal worker
3+ week, 4+ day ago (46+ words) It’s a tenfold increase from the reward offered by the federal law enforcement agency a year after her disappearance. Kierra Coles, then 26 years old and three months pregnant, went missing Oct. 2, 2018 after leaving her South Chicago apartment near 82nd Street and…...
16 teens arrested at vacant Congress Theater, 1 week after illegal rave
3+ week, 6+ day ago (39+ words) The teens, ages 13 to 19, were all charged with one misdemeanor count for criminal trespassing. The mass arrest comes after a local DJ held an unsanctioned rave at the theater on Aug. 8 that drew several young people....