Chicago Police (CPD) have yet to make any arrests stemming from a mob assault, caught on video, on a 15-year-old male near Lane Tech High School in Roscoe Village during a Memorial Day weekend carnival.

Chicago City Wire has learned that Chicago Police (CPD) routinely has only two members of its SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) unit on duty in the city overnight.

Seniors living in Chicago Housing Authority apartments have faced problems with the elevators for years.

The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation has been honored with the Cure Violence Civic Achievement Award at a fund a fundraising event held at the Hyatt Regency Chicago that raised more than $750,000.

Black Lives Matter proponents need to put their feet on the ground in their own communities, an author and philosophy professor who recently took to Twitter to decry the "systematic absence of law and order" in the federal government's response to gang violence said during a recent interview.

A 7-year-old boy was hit in the chin by a bullet fragment as he and his family were driving through the Bucktown neighborhood Thursday night, according to Chicago police.

An armed security guard associated with staunch anti-gun and nationally known social activist, Father Michael Pfleger, was arrested on May 27 outside St. Sabina’s Roman Catholic Church on the South Side where Pfleger is a senior pastor.

A recent Illinois Office of Executive Inspector General (OEIG) investigation revealed that the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) hired a former Chicago police officer.

BetterGov looks into Attorney General Jeff Sessions recent remark that the surge in deadly violence in Chicago was caused by ACLU pressure to end the city’s stop-and-frisk policing policy. Session is mostly false.

A 13-inch chef’s knife came in handy for a restaurant worker when she was targeted by a would-be robber aboard a CTA train in the Loop last week, according to Chicago police.

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.