Chicago

Chicago city leaders unveiled a 10-day Election Day preparedness plan Friday, following a difficult summer that saw unrest and surges in violent crime. 

The woman who was shot and whose boyfriend was fatally wounded allegedly by police in Waukegan, Ill., earlier this month is suing the city, the recently-fired Chicago-area officer who opened fire on them and the officer who questioned them minutes earlier, recently filed court papers show.

The fate of a Christopher Columbus statue in Pittsburgh has potentially been decided after a city art commission vote this week.

A Chicago mother has been charged with filing a false police report after she said her SUV had been stolen with her 7-month-old son inside — a detail she later admitted she added to accelerate the hunt for the vehicle, police said.

A man convicted of murdering a Chicago police commander in 2018 was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday. 

Police body camera and other footage released Wednesday from the Chicago-area officer-involamved shooting involving a woman and her boyfriend, who later died, does not show the actual shooting – only moments after – and leaves questions surrounding the credibility of the officer’s narrative, lawyers for the couple said Wednesday.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot warned Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s planned rollback of coronavirus reopenings will have a devastating impact on the city’s economy just as it is beginning to recover from the damage caused by earlier lockdowns.

After a Chicago security guard asked two shoppers to put on coronavirus masks in his store, they allegedly punchined, pulled his hair and stabbed him more than two dozen times.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Prtizker is imposing harsher restrictions in two additional regions as new coronavirus case counts soar.

Footage purportedly showing a fatal police shooting in the Chicago-area will be released to the public after the victims’ families have had the chance the view it, the city's mayor said.