Several Illinois legislators vows push to close a loophole in state law that allows suburban police to avoid administrative scrutiny after shooting a person.

BetterGov assess the truthfulness of his statement regarding gun violence affecting the city's bottom line.

In light of rising tension between the police and the public, Lori Lightfoot of the Chicago Police Board discusses what police reform entails and how to move forward

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District has been busy, over the past decade, protecting Lake Michigan, cleaning up Cook County rivers and streams, treating sewage and alleviating flooding.

According to credit card authorization forms produced pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, Orland Park Public Library (OPPL) Director Mary Weimar recently used public library funds to buy “treats” for Village of Orland Park public workers who plowed snow in the Library’s parking lot in February.

In the wake of the Feb. 14 shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school that left 17 students dead and 15 others injured, questions are being raised about the role new disciplinary procedures may have played in allowing the alleged shooter to plot his mayhem without detection.

Chicago Police Officer Dean Angelo Sr. discussed the rise in violent crime with Chicago City Wire and why there are as many murders in the city now as there were in some cities in the 1990s when drug wars were taking place.

Chicago police commander gunned down at Thompson Center pursuing a suspect

Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin is pushing for a county board hearing into how suburbs investigate police shootings following a Better Government Association/WBEZ investigation that found gaping loopholes in administrative oversight.

After watching and reporting on local, state and national government and politics for nearly half a century, it takes a lot to shock or surprise me.

Citing a “glaring hole” in how police shootings in the suburbs are investigated, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is offering to assist all suburban Cook County police departments to determine if officers violated policies or procedures when they shoot someone.

Police in suburban Cook County who shoot people under questionable circumstances do so with impunity, according to a review of every suburban police shooting over 13 years.

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They aggressively confronted the mentally ill, fired weapons during high-speed chases and shot bystanders as well as other cops. But they were never punished or retrained.

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With a 2016 per capita homicide rate of 34.22 (as reported by the FBI), Chicago’s problem with gun violence has plenty of politicians talking about solutions. One of them is Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin, who calls the crime wave “genocide.”

An announcement by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said camera-equipped officers in Chicago are the largest utilization of the technology in the country.

Jeff Addicott, director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas, feels Sen. Lindsay Graham’s (R-SC) pain in the wake of the latest New York City bombing attack. Addicott said he’s just not sure Graham's suggestion that the suspect in the bombing being treated as an enemy combatant is truly in the best interest of the country in its fight against terrorism.

Addiction to opioids, including fentanyl and other lethal synthetic drugs, may be a national epidemic, but stopping shipments from abroad is one part of the solution, according to Gov. Bruce Rauner.

Illinois' long-vacant legislative inspector general (LIG) office, suddenly filled earlier this month after a sexual harassment scandal bloomed in Springfield, could contribute to state liability for lawmaker's misconduct, a Chicago-based attorney said during a recent interview.