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At least 17 people, including a young girl, are dead and at least 72 others have been wounded in shootings across the city over the long Fourth of July weekend. Twelve of the victims were minors and two of them died from their injuries, according to police. The most recent fatality took place when a 39-year-old man was found shot…

A new report from the independent monitor overseeing the federal consent decree to reform the Chicago Police Department shows that the city has missed the majority of deadlines issued on those reforms in its first year under the court-ordered agreement.

Videotape shows more than a dozen officers “lounging” in U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush’s campaign office, one even making popcorn, as protests and looting erupted in Chicago earlier this month, he revealed Thursday.

Members of the National Guard have been called to Chicago as the city braces for additional protests following a night of destruction despite a citywide curfew, the city’s mayor announced Sunday. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, at her request, “has ordered a contingent of the National Guard to maintain a limited presence to support our...

Chicago’s mayor said video footage of police shooting and wounding a suspect inside a downtown Chicago train station is “extremely disturbing” and that she supports the interim police superintendent’s request for prosecutors to be sent directly to the scene — an unusual or perhaps unprecedented action in the nation’s third largest city. After watching what she called the “widely...

The results of a toxicology report for rapper Juice WRLD were released Wednesday, with the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office ruling his cause of death an “accident.” According to the medical examiner, 21-year-old Jarad Higgins died of oxycodone and codeine toxicity in December. The young rapper had suffered what officials previously called a medical incident when he and his...

Chicago police say a 13-year-old is a person of interest in the murder of a beloved nurse who was shot and killed while still in his scrubs in the city’s Little Village neighborhood last month. CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Friday that the teen was considered a person of interest in the shooting, but no charges had been filed....

Chicago police say a beloved nurse who was shot and killed while walking in his scrubs in the city’s Little Village neighborhood last month may have been targeted in the shooting in a case of mistaken identity. “It’s gang territory, it’s a rival gang territory and it appears – once again it appears – that these individuals get in...

A suspect is in custody and facing charges in the murder of a Little Village nurse. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski has the story.

Chicago police were expected to detail Thursday the allegations against a 19-year-old man charged in the shooting death of a beloved nurse in the city’s Little Village neighborhood last month. Sandra Torres reports.

More details are emerging in the scandal surrounding former Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson, according to a new report indicating that more Chicago police employees are under investigation for an alleged cover-up to protect him.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot abruptly fired the city’s top cop Monday, terminating Supt. Eddie Johnson over allegations he “intentionally misled” both her and the public. Lightfoot said Johnson “engaged in a series of actions intolerable for any leader in a position of trust,” citing evidence she had reviewed from an ongoing investigation by the inspector general into an incident in...

A woman who witnessed the fatal 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald by a Chicago police officer has settled her lawsuit against the city.

Faith Rodgers, who has accused R. Kelly of sexual battery, knowingly infecting her with herpes and locking her in rooms for punishment, spoke at a press conference Monday with attorney Gloria Allred.

A man was killed Thursday after rushing to help his teenage niece who was being sexually assaulted in her bedroom in a Burnside home, authorities said. Lauren Petty reports.

Former Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck has been named the interim superintendent of the Chicago Police Department following Supt. Eddie Johnson’s retirement announcement, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Friday.

Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson on Thursday announced plans to retire from his post as the city’s top cop after less than four years leading the department.

A source tells NBC 5 that her family was likely discriminated at when they arrived at the hospital, forcing them to wait outside for hours in the cold.

The 7-year-old girl who was trick-or-treating on Halloween in Chicago’s West Side with her family remains in critical condition Friday as police interrogated a juvenile in custody. The girl was one of two people injured in the shooting that took place at around 5:30 p.m. in the 3700 block of West 26th Street in the city’s Little Village neighborhood, according...

A 7-year-old girl was critically hurt after she was shot while trick-or-treating in Chicago on Thursday. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter has all the late breaking details from Little Village.