Chicago Police Department officials agreed to revise proposed new rules and prohibit officers from searching vehicles based ...

The significant surge in shootings by officers in the first five months of 2025 comes more than six years after city and police leaders agreed to extensive oversight from a federal judge after decades ...

At a court hearing, Snelling criticized a plan to allow the Chicago Police Department to issue 30-minute curfews even though he defended the ordinance in a Sun-Times interview last week.

Raoul’s brief, filed in the Illinois Appellate Court, argued that moving hearings behind closed doors would undermine both the state’s consent decree with the city and public confidence in CPD.

Settlements for police-related incidents have become routine and increasingly expensive. Here’s how Chicago can fix the ...

Supporters of the measure would need 34 votes to override the mayor's promised veto. The ordinance passed by a 27-22 vote.

Mayor Brandon Johnson could veto the measure, which was only approved with 27 votes, seven shy of a veto-proof supermajority.

Chicago’s consent decree with the state of Illinois was approved in 2019 and remains in place. The DOJ moves last month have “no direct impact” on the Chicago decree, an ACLU of Illinois spokesperson ...

Brandon Johnson will veto a measure approved by City Council on Wednesday that would have given Chicago’s police ...