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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One day in May of 1970, an 11-year-old boy and his disabled sister were sitting on the curb outside a Chicago tavern, waiting for their mother to come out. When a priest with crinkly eyes and a ready smile happened by and offered the family a ride home, they could not have been happier.
Read moreOne person has been charged with a shooting early Sunday at a house party that left 13 people wounded, four of them critically, Chicago police said.
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Recreational marijuana sales in Chicago will start Jan. 1 along with the rest of Illinois, after the city council voted Wednesday against an ordinance that would have delayed licenses for six months.
Read moreTaking up a case involving four men whose cars were impounded over scads of traffic tickets, the Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to determine whether filing for bankruptcy can undo a lawful repossession.
Read moreA federal court in Maryland ruled that the City of Chicago has standing to pursue its claims against Marriott International relating to a data breach by hackers who made off with passport numbers, credit card information and other personal data. The city ordinance under which Chicago has filed suit is constitutional, the court ruled.
Read moreA young woman claims the Chicago Board of Education and its Legal Prep Charter Academies hired Jamel M. Helaire-Jones as girls’ basketball coach, despite his previous arrest on charges of abduction and attempted sexual assault, whereupon he made her “acts of sexual contact and penetration with him in the locker room and gymnasium.”
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The Seventh Circuit appeared convinced at oral arguments Tuesday that Chicago cannot be held liable for a police officer’s off-duty misconduct, placing in jeopardy a historic $44.7 million verdict against the city for a drunken cop’s shooting of his friend.
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Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson was fired Monday morning, just weeks after announcing his retirement at the end of the year, over what the mayor called lies about falling asleep in his car.
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Actor Jussie Smollett filed a counterclaim against Chicago asserting the city knows he is telling the truth about an alleged hate crime against him but falsely accused him of lying anyway.
Read moreChicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson delivered an emotional retirement announcement Thursday after serving for three years as the Windy City’s top cop.
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An attorney representing black customers who say they were asked to change tables at a Chicago-area Buffalo Wild Wings because of their skin color urged the restaurant chain Tuesday to make wholesale changes to avoid a discrimination lawsuit.
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