Investigations

Chicago police were scrambling Wednesday to find an aggravated battery suspect who was already in custody, but released because his charging information apparently was never entered into the system.

Every year at this time, Brandon Johnson, the Deputy Coroner of Grundy County drives to a spot near Seneca on U.S. Highway 6, and leaves a bouquet of flowers, along with a laminated photo of a woman he never met.

The Chicago area has seen a total of 185 expressway shootings so far this year as of Thursday, according to Illinois State Police.

The Illinois State Police announced Thursday they will be increasing patrol presence during “peak criminal activity times” on Chicago-area expressways after the region has seen more than double the number of expressway shootings this year as compared to last. Phil Rogers reports.

The City of Chicago is installing hundreds of kits in city buildings to treat bleeding gunshot victims under a new program officials say could help save lives in an emergency.

The Chicago police officer captured on video in an altercation with a woman at North Avenue Beach was suspended for two days in 2014 after a Polish-speaking couple filed a complaint alleging that he told the husband “you should speak English” as the man struggled to understand him during a traffic stop, newly released records show....

Chicago’s police oversight agency on Thursday released bodycam and surveillance videos showing the controversial altercation between an officer and a woman walking her dog at North Avenue Beach last month.

Contractors began to demolish a garage in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood Tuesday after neighbors say they’ve complained for years about the danger the unsafe structure posed to the community.

In June, Mark Brewer of Mount Prospect moved his life to Los Angeles to be with his partner. Three months later, his items still haven’t arrived.

Illinois has a crime victim compensation program that can provide up to $27,000 of expenses for qualified crime victims. But NBC 5 Investigates analyzed every claim over the past 10 years, more than 42,000 claims, and we discovered the money the state is awarding victims has dropped sharply over the past 10 years

Federal authorities in Chicago are targeting gun traffickers with a “strike force” unveiled earlier this year – and they say they’re willing to supersede local decisions with additional federal charges if they believe it’s warranted.

The process of tracing every single firearm used in a crime in the U.S. goes through a facility in West Virginia that houses millions of paper records of gun sales that staff page through one at a time as they trace thousands of guns each day. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers reports.

The process of tracing every single firearm used in a crime in the U.S. goes through a facility in West Virginia that houses millions of paper records of gun sales that staff page through one by one.