At least 13 people, including a 7-year-old girl at a family party and a teenage boy, were killed in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend, police said. At least 59 others were shot and wounded.
Read moreA bus driver — who was removed from active service with the Chicago Transit Authority after discussing with other drivers the safety of transporting police to demonstrations — lost his motion for a temporary restraining order in a federal court in Illinois. The driver has not shown his speech was constitutionally protected.
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A Chicago police union’s collective-bargaining agreement requirement that the police department destroy all officer disciplinary records after five years is unenforceable because it conflicts with public policy and state records law, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Read moreA Chicago Transit Authority bus driver filed a federal lawsuit against the agency Monday, claiming his employer violated his free speech rights by prohibiting discussion of safety issues of transporting police and arrested protesters and if bus drivers had the right to refuse to drive them.
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Vying for the Oval Office in November, former Vice President Joe Biden held a virtual roundtable with big-city mayors Monday to discuss the protests roiling America and how the federal government can assist local decision-makers to bounce back from the twin difficulties presented by violence in the streets and the economic ravages of the pandemic.
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The Seventh Circuit was skeptical Thursday of a parks advocacy organization’s arguments opposing the construction of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago’s Jackson Park, in a case that has left many supporters of the former president bewildered and angry.
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Two Illinois churches Wednesday lost their bid in federal court for an injunction to keep Governor J.B. Pritzker from enforcing against them an executive order restricting religious gatherings to no more than 10 people during the Covid-19 crisis.
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A sharply worded ruling by a federal appeals court in Chicago on Thursday said the Trump administration policy of threatening to withhold grant money from so-called sanctuary cities to force them to comply with its more stringent immigration policies violates separation-of-powers provisions enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
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Security and body-cam videos released Tuesday shows Chicago police shooting an unarmed short-order cook at the foot of a subway escalator and again in the back, after officers tried to stop him for violating a city ordinance by walking from one train car to another.
Read moreHorse-drawn carriages will soon be a thing of the past in Chicago, the city council voting Friday to stop issuing licenses for the tourist attraction.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed actor Jussie Smollett’s malicious prosecution claim against Chicago, which claimed the city knew he was the victim of a hate crime, but accused him of lying anyway.
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Chicago’s mayor pledged an aggressive public health campaign aimed at the city’s black and brown communities Monday amid alarm that an overwhelming number of African American residents were among the people to die of Covid-19.
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Chicago has a new top cop, with Mayor Lori Lightfoot announcing Thursday evening that she has chosen former Dallas Police Chief David Brown to lead the Windy City’s force.
Read moreChicago’s Billy Goat Tavern, made famous by Mike Royko, sued Society Insurance in federal court for refusing to cover business losses caused by its mandatory closing during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreA elderly, disabled resident of Chicago has plausibly claimed the city has an unconstitutional policy of towing allegedly abandoned vehicles before providing any notice by mail, a federal court in Illinois ruled. The city left a sticker on the woman’s van warning her to move it within a week. It was moved within that time frame but the city’s towing vendor still towed and impounded it. Before she could retrieve it, the city sold the van to the towing vendor, who sold it to a salvage yard where it was stripped and crushed.
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Chicago’s mayor said video footage of police shooting and wounding a suspect inside a downtown train station is “extremely disturbing” and that she supports the interim police superintendent’s request that prosecutors be sent directly to the scene — an unusual and perhaps unprecedented action in the nation’s third largest city.
Read moreA federal class action claims Chicago and United Road Towing illegally boot, tow, impound and sell cars whose owners cannot afford to pay traffic fines, without proper notice and without a hearing to determine fair compensation.
Read moreFormer “Empire” star Jussie Smollett pleaded not guilty Monday to new criminal charges over what police say was a staged hate crime against himself.
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A Chicago-area Christian outreach ministry will resume evangelizing in Millennium Park on Friday night after a federal judge ruled the city violated the ministry’s constitutional rights by trying to prevent it from preaching in the public space.
Read moreActor Jussie Smollett was indicted Tuesday for a second time on charges of lying to police about a racist and anti-gay attack he allegedly staged on himself last year in downtown Chicago.
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