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An Albany Park woman accused of two recent Northwest Side carjackings was ordered held on $1 million bail Saturday for allegedly driving off with an 8-year-old boy in one incident and throwing a 64-year-old woman out of her vehicle in the other.

The FBI and the Chicago Police Department on Friday were searching for a Dodge Durango that was believed to have been involved in a number of carjackings and thefts in the Chicago area, authorities said.

Chicago police on Friday released surveillance video of more than a dozen people wanted for stealing from a downtown store last May during widespread looting.

A 16-year-old boy was fatally shot Sunday in Little Village on the Southwest Side.

Workers with Chicago’s Department of Streets and Sanitation discovered a deceased male inside a garbage can early Saturday morning on the city’s Far South Side, police said.

The largest scandal in the Chicago Police Department’s history continued to grow Friday, as prosecutors asked a judge to throw out the convictions of nine individuals who said they were framed by a rogue sergeant and the tactical team under his command.

Nine more overturned convictions have been linked to a disgraced Chicago Police Department sergeant. In all, 109 cases have been vacated. NBC 5 Investigates’ Phil Rogers reports.

A new report from Chicago’s inspector general says officers didn’t know who was in charge or what they were supposed to do when violence erupted after the murder of George Floyd. NBC 5’s Natalie Martinez reports

Chicago Police Department leadership “failed” both the public and its own officers in its response to protests and unrest following the death of George Floyd last year, according to a scathing new report from the city’s watchdog agency that says CPD’s efforts were marked “almost without exception, by confusion and lack of coordination” that investigators say may have set the...

A barricaded person was arrested after a police SWAT team responded to gunfire Sunday in the Lawndale neighborhood.

A Chicago police officer is being hailed for his quick thinking after he helped to deliver a baby on Valentine’s Day near O’Hare International Airport. According to the Chicago Police Department, the 25-year force veteran stopped to assist a vehicle near Bessie Coleman Drive and Balmoral Avenue just after 7:15 a.m. Sunday. Instead of a stranded motorist, the officer...

More than two dozen expressway shootings have been reported in Chicago so far this year, and now IDOT is providing funds for the city to fight back. NBC 5 Investigates’ Phil Rogers has the story.

An on-duty Chicago Police Department detective suffered injuries Monday evening after he was attacked by two people in the city’s South Shore neighborhood, authorities said.

While the Chicago Police Department says it is making progress in reforms required by the department’s federal consent decree, some critics say that the department is falling short in key areas. According to details contained in the third report filed with the independent monitor overseeing the department’s consent decree, CPD says it is making progress towards reform. “This reporting...

While the Chicago Police Department says it is making progress in reforms required by the department’s federal consent decree, some critics say that the department is falling short in key areas. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski has the story.

An off-duty Chicago Police Department officer was found dead inside his home early Saturday, according to authorities. Department members escorted the 60-year-old officer’s body to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office Saturday, pictures posted on Twitter showed. In a tweet, CPD Supt. David Brown said “on behalf of the entire Chicago Police Department, we send our strength, love and...

An 8-year-old boy jumped out of a vehicle Saturday afternoon on Chicago’s Northwest Side after a woman stole the car with the child inside, according to police.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday signed an executive order that creates guidelines regarding the release of materials to victims of alleged police misconduct.

A Chicago police officer was indicted on more felony charges, including attempted murder, for an off-duty shooting while he was allegedly intoxicated.

With the recent dramatic increase of carjackings in Chicago, rideshare drivers for companies such as Uber and Lyft have become understandably frightened, wondering if they could be the next victims. In mid-January, the Chicago Police Department issued an alert warning of seven several armed carjackings targeting rideshare drivers between Dec. 28 and Jan. 17. In each incident, drivers were summoned…