The scarcity of community fireworks shows is about to turn the Fourth of July into a do-it-yourself holiday. While fireworks displays by unlicensed or amateur users is illegal in Illinois,…
The Chicago Police Department will be conducting DUI saturation patrols Friday through Monday (July 3-6) in three Chicago neighborhoods. Saturation patrols will be held in the South…
Ashley Scott was supposed to start a family vacation with Curtis Hale-Melton on July 10. Now that will be the day that Scott buries her former partner. Hale-Melton, 31, of Maywood,…
SPRINGFIELD — Rep. Marcus Evans would like to see the conversation around policing in the U.S. and Illinois focus on “bad individuals” using police powers wrongly, rather than…
An alleged former high-ranking member of the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico has been arraigned in Chicago on federal drug charges following his extradition from Mexico. Felipe Cabrera…
A man was critically injured Wednesday morning (July 1) when stabbed on the CTA Red Line. Chicago police said a 33-year-old man on a Chicago Transit Authority Red Line train on the…
A 19-year-old Aurora man has been arrested on a federal civil disorder charge for allegedly throwing an explosive device at a Naperville police vehicle during a June protest. Christian…
Illinois State Police are investigating the murder of a 14-year-old boy in East St. Louis. The East St. Louis Police Department received a call of shots fired with multiple victims…
