Rafael Mangual believes Chicago’s criminal justice system is exacerbating Chicago’s crime rate by letting repeat offenders out too soon.

Morning Answer - Greg Livingston of Coalition for a New Chicago reacts to the weekend shootings in Chicago

New plans for another march against gun violence are under way. Are they effective? The team discusses.

The Chicago Police Department (CPD) has organized a “Take Back the Streets” rally at 7 p.m. today on 49th and Cicero, a corner in Archer Heights that has neighbors on a crusade to rid it, and the entire block, of prostitutes and drug dealers.

Chicago’s SWAT teams are ill-prepared to respond to terrorism, the taking of a hostage or any other crisis that demands a rapid, full-scale police presence, a former SWAT team member says.

BetterGov investigates 14 ways to improve the tricky yet overtly powerful police contract in Chicago.

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.