The U.S. is nearly two weeks into a government shutdown, leaving essential government workers like air traffic controllers ...

A Chicago food pantry is marking its one-year anniversary this week, which comes as some government assistance programs face ...

The two anti-ICE protesters — who are engaged — allegedly “refused to retreat” during a Sept. 27 protest outside an ICE ...

WGN-TV released a statement after a video appeared to show one of their employees being detained by federal agents in Chicago ...

Several demonstrators were dragged out of a scuffle between Illinois State Police and anti-ICE protesters, local WLS reported ...

Throughout the Chicago area, more people have been surrendering their pets. It is overwhelming shelters and rescues.

A police pursuit involving federal agents ended in a crash and the use of tear gas on Chicago's East Side on Tuesday, local ...

Ray Rice of the Ethical Society of Police says silence after Chicago raid would be complicity and urges officers to “speak ...

Chicago police said an unidentified male juvenile was found outside in the 6000 block of South Prairie Avenue in the city's ...

A federal judge on Thursday granted a partial restraining order to block the Trump administration's deployment of National ...

Illinois Gov. says Trump ‘wants us all, in big cities, to get used to the idea that it’s OK to have military on the streets.’ ...

Katie Hill is executive director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. Jens Ludwig is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman distinguished service professor at the University of Chicago, Pritzker faculty ...